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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/7] Reduce GFP_ATOMIC allocation failures, candidate fix V3
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 07:30:06PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Sorry for the long delay in posting another version. Testing is extremely
> time-consuming and I wasn't getting to work on this as much as I'd have liked.
>
> Changelog since V2
> o Dropped the kswapd-quickly-notice-high-order patch. In more detailed
> testing, it made latencies even worse as kswapd slept more on high-order
> congestion causing order-0 direct reclaims.
> o Added changes to how congestion_wait() works
> o Added a number of new patches altering the behaviour of reclaim
>
> Since 2.6.31-rc1, there have been an increasing number of GFP_ATOMIC
> failures. A significant number of these have been high-order GFP_ATOMIC
> failures and while they are generally brushed away, there has been a large
> increase in them recently and there are a number of possible areas the
> problem could be in - core vm, page writeback and a specific driver. The
> bugs affected by this that I am aware of are;

Thanks for all the time you've spent on this one. Let me start with
some more questions about the workload ;)

> 2. A crypted work partition and swap partition was created. On my
> own setup, I gave no passphrase so it'd be easier to activate without
> interaction but there are multiple options. I should have taken better
> notes but the setup goes something like this;
>
> cryptsetup create -y crypt-partition /dev/sda5
> pvcreate /dev/mapper/crypt-partition
> vgcreate crypt-volume /dev/mapper/crypt-partition
> lvcreate -L 5G -n crypt-logical crypt-volume
> lvcreate -L 2G -n crypt-swap crypt-volume
> mkfs -t ext3 /dev/crypt-volume/crypt-logical
> mkswap /dev/crypt-volume/crypt-swap
>
> 3. With the partition mounted on /scratch, I
> cd /scratch
> mkdir music
> git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git linux-2.6
>
> 4. On a normal partition, I expand a tarball containing test scripts available at
> http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/postings/latency-20091112/latency-tests-with-results.tar.gz
>
> There are two helper programs that run as part of the test - a fake
> music player and a fake gitk.
>
> The fake music player uses rsync with bandwidth limits to start
> downloading a music folder from another machine. It's bandwidth
> limited to simulate playing music over NFS.

So the workload is gitk reading a git repo and a program reading data
over the network. Which part of the workload writes to disk?

-chris



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