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From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: "Sergey Senozhatsky" <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	"Dan Streetman" <ddstreet@ieee.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, 김준수 <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
	"Gioh Kim" <gioh.kim@lge.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] allow zram to use zbud as underlying allocator
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 17:37:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <560C01BF.3040604@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMJBoFM_bMvQthAJPK+w4uQznqp7eFLdk=c7ZtT-R1aoF-1SeA@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/25/2015 11:54 AM, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> Hello Minchan,
>
> the main use case where I see unacceptably long stalls in UI with
> zsmalloc is switching between users in Android.
> There is a way to automate user creation and switching between them so
> the test I run both to get vmstat statistics and to profile stalls is
> to create a user, switch to it and switch back. Each test cycle does
> that 10 times, and all the results presented below are averages for 20
> runs.
>
> Kernel configurations used for testing:
>
> (1): vanilla
> (2): (1) plus "make SLUB atomic" patch [1]
> (3): (1) with zbud instead of zsmalloc
> (4): (2) with compaction defer logic mostly disabled

Disabling compaction deferring leads to less compaction stalls? That 
indeed looks very weird and counter-intuitive. Also what's "mostly" 
disabled mean?


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From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: "Sergey Senozhatsky" <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	"Dan Streetman" <ddstreet@ieee.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, 김준수 <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
	"Gioh Kim" <gioh.kim@lge.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] allow zram to use zbud as underlying allocator
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 17:37:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <560C01BF.3040604@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMJBoFM_bMvQthAJPK+w4uQznqp7eFLdk=c7ZtT-R1aoF-1SeA@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/25/2015 11:54 AM, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> Hello Minchan,
>
> the main use case where I see unacceptably long stalls in UI with
> zsmalloc is switching between users in Android.
> There is a way to automate user creation and switching between them so
> the test I run both to get vmstat statistics and to profile stalls is
> to create a user, switch to it and switch back. Each test cycle does
> that 10 times, and all the results presented below are averages for 20
> runs.
>
> Kernel configurations used for testing:
>
> (1): vanilla
> (2): (1) plus "make SLUB atomic" patch [1]
> (3): (1) with zbud instead of zsmalloc
> (4): (2) with compaction defer logic mostly disabled

Disabling compaction deferring leads to less compaction stalls? That 
indeed looks very weird and counter-intuitive. Also what's "mostly" 
disabled mean?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-30 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-14 13:49 [PATCH 0/3] allow zram to use zbud as underlying allocator Vitaly Wool
2015-09-14 13:49 ` Vitaly Wool
2015-09-14 13:50 ` [PATCH 1/3] zram: make max_zpage_size configurable Vitaly Wool
2015-09-14 13:50   ` Vitaly Wool
2015-09-15  1:00   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-09-15  1:00     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-09-15  7:18     ` Vitaly Wool
2015-09-15  7:38       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-09-15  7:38         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-09-15  5:42   ` Dan Streetman
2015-09-15  5:42     ` Dan Streetman
2015-09-15  6:08     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-09-15  6:08       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-09-14 13:51 ` [PATCH 2/3] zpool/zsmalloc/zbud: align on interfaces Vitaly Wool
2015-09-14 13:51   ` Vitaly Wool
2015-09-15  1:06   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-09-15  1:06     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-09-15  5:09     ` Dan Streetman
2015-09-15  5:09       ` Dan Streetman
2015-09-14 13:55 ` [PATCH 3/3] zram: use common zpool interface Vitaly Wool
2015-09-14 13:55   ` Vitaly Wool
2015-09-15  1:12   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-09-15  1:12     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-09-15  6:03     ` Dan Streetman
2015-09-15  6:03       ` Dan Streetman
2015-09-14 14:01 ` [PATCH 0/3] allow zram to use zbud as underlying allocator Vlastimil Babka
2015-09-14 14:01   ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-09-14 14:12   ` Vitaly Wool
2015-09-14 14:12     ` Vitaly Wool
2015-09-14 14:14     ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-09-14 14:14       ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-09-15  4:08       ` Dan Streetman
2015-09-15  4:08         ` Dan Streetman
2015-09-15  4:22         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-09-15  4:22           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-09-17  6:21           ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-09-17  6:21             ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-09-17  9:19             ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-09-17  9:19               ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-09-15  0:49 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-09-15  0:49   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-09-15  6:13 ` Minchan Kim
2015-09-15  6:13   ` Minchan Kim
2015-09-25  9:54   ` Vitaly Wool
2015-09-25  9:54     ` Vitaly Wool
2015-09-30  7:52     ` Minchan Kim
2015-09-30  7:52       ` Minchan Kim
2015-09-30  8:01       ` Vitaly Wool
2015-09-30  8:01         ` Vitaly Wool
2015-09-30  8:13         ` Minchan Kim
2015-09-30  8:13           ` Minchan Kim
2015-09-30  8:18           ` Vitaly Wool
2015-09-30  8:18             ` Vitaly Wool
2015-09-30 15:37     ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2015-09-30 15:37       ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-09-30 15:46       ` Vitaly Wool
2015-09-30 15:46         ` Vitaly Wool
2015-10-01  7:52         ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-10-01  7:52           ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-10-10  9:33           ` Vitaly Wool
2015-10-10  9:33             ` Vitaly Wool
2015-10-14 13:28             ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-10-14 13:28               ` Vlastimil Babka

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