Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:13:52 +0800 | From | Tao Ma <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: do not drain pagevecs for mlock |
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Hi Kosaki, On 12/30/2011 06:07 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: >>> Because your test program is too artificial. 20sec/100000times = >>> 200usec. And your >>> program repeat mlock and munlock the exact same address. so, yes, if >>> lru_add_drain_all() is removed, it become near no-op. but it's >>> worthless comparision. >>> none of any practical program does such strange mlock usage. >> yes, I should say it is artificial. But mlock did cause the problem in >> our product system and perf shows that the mlock uses the system time >> much more than others. That's the reason we created this program to test >> whether mlock really sucks. And we compared the result with >> rhel5(2.6.18) which runs much much faster. >> >> And from the commit log you described, we can remove lru_add_drain_all >> safely here, so why add it? At least removing it makes mlock much faster >> compared to the vanilla kernel. > > If we remove it, we lose to a test way of mlock. "Memlocked" field of > /proc/meminfo > show inaccurate number very easily. So, if 200usec is no avoidable, > I'll ack you. > But I'm not convinced yet. Do you find something new for this?
Thanks Tao
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