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Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] mm: use a dedicated workqueue for the free workers

From Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] mm: use a dedicated workqueue for the free workers
Date 2017-03-23 16:40 +0100
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On 03/22/2017 01:41 AM, Aaron Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 03:33:35PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 05:00:02PM +0800, Aaron Lu wrote:
>>> Introduce a workqueue for all the free workers so that user can fine
>>> tune how many workers can be active through sysfs interface: max_active.
>>> More workers will normally lead to better performance, but too many can
>>> cause severe lock contention.
>>
>> Let me ask a question.
>>
>> How well can workqueue distribute the jobs in multiple CPU?
> 
> I would say it's good enough for my needs.
> After all, it doesn't need many kworkers to achieve the 50% time
> decrease: 2-4 kworkers for EP and 4-8 kworkers for EX are enough from
> previous attched data.

It's also worth noting that we'd like to *also* like to look into
increasing how scalable freeing pages to a given zone is.

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[PATCH v2 3/5] mm: use a dedicated workqueue for the free workers Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> - 2017-03-15 10:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] mm: use a dedicated workqueue for the free workers Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-22 07:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] mm: use a dedicated workqueue for the free workers Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> - 2017-03-22 09:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] mm: use a dedicated workqueue for the free workers Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-22 10:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] mm: use a dedicated workqueue for the free workers Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> - 2017-03-22 14:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] mm: use a dedicated workqueue for the free workers Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-23 08:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] mm: use a dedicated workqueue for the free workers Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> - 2017-03-23 16:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] mm: use a dedicated workqueue for the free workers Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> - 2017-03-24 13:40 +0100

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