linux-kernel - Re: [patch 3/3][rfc] vmscan: batched swap slot allocation

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Date:	Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:31:19 +0200
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/3][rfc] vmscan: batched swap slot allocation

A test program creates an anonymous memory mapping the size of the
system's RAM (2G).  It faults all pages of it linearly, then kicks off
128 reclaimers (on 4 cores) that map, fault and unmap 2G in sum and
parallel, thereby evicting the first mapping onto swap.

The time is then taken for the initial mapping to get faulted in from
swap linearly again, thus measuring how bad the 128 reclaimers
distributed the pages on the swap space.

  Average over 5 runs, standard deviation in parens:

      swap-in          user            system            total

old:  74.97s (0.38s)   0.52s (0.02s)   291.07s (3.28s)   2m52.66s (0m1.32s)
new:  45.26s (0.68s)   0.53s (0.01s)   250.47s (5.17s)   2m45.93s (0m2.63s)

where old is current mmotm snapshot 2009-04-17-15-19 and new is these
three patches applied to it.

Test program attached.  Kernbench didn't show any differences on my
single core x86 laptop with 256mb ram (poor thing).

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