linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] change zonelist order v5 [1/3] implements zonelist order selection

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Message-Id: <1178656627.5203.84.camel@localhost>
Date:	Tue, 08 May 2007 16:37:06 -0400
From:	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, ak@...e.de, jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change zonelist order v5 [1/3] implements zonelist
	order selection

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 11:05 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 8 May 2007, Lee Schermerhorn wrote:
> 
> > > So far testing is IA64 only?
> > Yes, so far.  I will test on an Opteron platform this pm.  
> > Assume that no news is good news.
> 
> A better assumption: no news -> no testing. 

Before you asked, yes.  I meant after the last message, if you didn't
hear from me, everything worked fine.  And it does, sort of...

> You probably need a 
> configuration with a couple of nodes. Maybesomething less symmetric than 
> Kame? I.e. have 4GB nodes and then DMA32 takes out a sizeable chunk of it?
> 

I tested on a 2 socket, 4GB Opteron blade.  All memory is either DMA32
or DMA.  I added some ad hoc instrumentation to the build_zonelist_*
functions to see what's happening.  I have verified that the patches
appear to build the zonelists correctly:

default -> node order, because "low_kmem" [DMA+DMA32] > total_mem/2.
Zone lists:
DMA:  DMA-0
DMA32: DMA32-0, DMA-0, DMA32-1
Normal:  same as DMA32 [no normal memory]
Movable:  same as DMA32 & Normal

explicit zone order also builds as expected:
DMA:  DMA-0
DMA32:  DMA32-1, DMA32-0, DMA-0
and same for normal and movable

However, a curious thing happens:  in either order, allocations seem to
overflow to the remote DMA32 before dipping into the DMA!!!?  I'm using
memtoy to create a large [3+GB] anon segment and locking it down.

I need to check a non-patched kernel to see if it behaves the same way,
and examine the code to see why...  For one thing, the kernel seems to
do a bit better at reclaiming memory before overflowing.  Eventually, it
will dip into DMA and finally get killed--OOM.

I'll be off-line most of the rest of the week, so I probably won't get
to investigate much further nor test on a larger socket count/memory
system until next week.  

Lee

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