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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor•org>
To: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux•intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil•cx>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo•com.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, sfr@canb•auug.org.au,
	matthew.r.wilcox@intel•com, chinang.ma@intel•com,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, sharad.c.tripathi@intel•com,
	arjan@linux•intel.com, suresh.b.siddha@intel•com,
	harita.chilukuri@intel•com, douglas.w.styner@intel•com,
	peter.xihong.wang@intel•com, hubert.nueckel@intel•com,
	chris.mason@oracle•com, srostedt@redhat•com,
	linux-scsi@vger•kernel.org, andrew.vasquez@qlogic•com,
	anirban.chakraborty@qlogic•com
Subject: Re: Mainline kernel OLTP performance update
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:20:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sknjeemn.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1232092430.11429.52.camel@ymzhang> (Yanmin Zhang's message of "Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:53:50 +0800")

"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux•intel.com> writes:


> I think that's because SLQB
> doesn't pass through big object allocation to page allocator.
> netperf UDP-U-1k has less improvement with SLQB.

That sounds like just the page allocator needs to be improved.
That would help everyone. We talked a bit about this earlier,
some of the heuristics for hot/cold pages are quite outdated
and have been tuned for obsolete machines and also its fast path
is quite long. Unfortunately no code currently.

-Andi


-- 
ak@linux•intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-16 10:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <BC02C49EEB98354DBA7F5DD76F2A9E800317003CB0@azsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com>
     [not found] ` <200901161503.13730.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
     [not found]   ` <20090115201210.ca1a9542.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-16  6:46     ` Mainline kernel OLTP performance update Nick Piggin
2009-01-16  6:55       ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-16  7:06         ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16  7:53         ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-16 10:20           ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-01-20  5:16             ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-21 23:58               ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-22  8:36                 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-22  9:15                   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-22  9:28                     ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-22  9:47                       ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23  3:02                         ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23  6:52                           ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23  8:06                             ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23  8:30                               ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23  8:40                                 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23  9:46                                 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 15:22                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 15:31                                     ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 15:55                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 16:01                                         ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-24  2:55                                     ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-24  7:36                                       ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-12  5:22                                         ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-02-12  5:47                                           ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-02-12 15:25                                             ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-12 16:07                                               ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-12 16:03                                             ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-26 17:36                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-01  2:52                                         ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23  8:33                           ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23  9:02                             ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23 18:40                               ` care and feeding of netperf (Re: Mainline kernel OLTP performance update) Rick Jones
2009-01-23 18:51                                 ` Grant Grundler
2009-01-24  3:03                                 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-26 18:26                                   ` Rick Jones
2009-01-16  7:00       ` Mainline kernel OLTP performance update Andrew Morton
2009-01-16  7:25         ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16  8:59         ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 18:11       ` Rick Jones
2009-01-19  7:43         ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-19 22:19           ` Rick Jones

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