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SubjectRe: [PATCH 6/9] kstaled: rate limit pages scanned per second.
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On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:13 AM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
<kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:49:04 -0700
> Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> wrote:
>
>> Scan some number of pages from each node every second, instead of trying to
>> scan the entime memory at once and being idle for the rest of the configured
>> interval.
>>
>> In addition to spreading the CPU usage over the entire scanning interval,
>> this also reduces the jitter between two consecutive scans of the same page.
>>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
>
> Does this scan thread need to be signle thread ?

It tends to perform worse if we try making it multithreaded. What
happens is that the scanning threads call page_referenced() a lot, and
if they both try scanning pages that belong to the same file that
causes the mapping's i_mmap_mutex lock to bounce. Same things happens
if they try scanning pages that belong to the same anon VMA too.

--
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.


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