linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: page_alloc: Avoid marking zones full prematurely after zone

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Date:	Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:05:30 +0800
From:	Simon Jeons <simon.jeons@...il.com>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
CC:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Hedi Berriche <hedi@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: page_alloc: Avoid marking zones full prematurely
 after zone_reclaim()

Hi Michal,
On 04/05/2013 02:31 PM, Simon Jeons wrote:
> Hi Michal,
> On 03/21/2013 04:19 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> On Thu 21-03-13 10:33:07, Simon Jeons wrote:
>>> Hi Mel,
>>> On 03/21/2013 02:19 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
>>>> The following problem was reported against a distribution kernel when
>>>> zone_reclaim was enabled but the same problem applies to the mainline
>>>> kernel. The reproduction case was as follows
>>>>
>>>> 1. Run numactl -m +0 dd if=largefile of=/dev/null
>>>>     This allocates a large number of clean pages in node 0
>>> I confuse why this need allocate a large number of clean pages?
>> It reads from file and puts pages into the page cache. The pages are not
>> modified so they are clean. Output file is /dev/null so no pages are
>> written. dd doesn't call fadvise(POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) on the input file
>> by default so pages from the file stay in the page cache
>
> I try this in v3.9-rc5:
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=1MB
> 14813+0 records in
> 14812+0 records out
> 14812000000 bytes (15 GB) copied, 105.988 s, 140 MB/s
>
> free -m -s 1
>
>                    total       used       free     shared buffers     
> cached
> Mem:          7912       1181       6731          0 663        239
> -/+ buffers/cache:        277       7634
> Swap:         8011          0       8011
>
> It seems that almost 15GB copied before I stop dd, but the used pages 
> which I monitor during dd always around 1200MB. Weird, why?
>

Sorry for waste your time, but the test result is weird, is it?

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