linux-kernel - Re: Write throughput impaired by touching dirty

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Message-ID: <20150624091650.GC32756@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:	Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:16:50 +0200
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To:	Mark Hills <mark@...x.org>
Cc:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Write throughput impaired by touching dirty_ratio

On Wed 24-06-15 10:27:36, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> [add some CC's]
> 
> On 06/19/2015 05:16 PM, Mark Hills wrote:
[...]
> > The system is an HP xw6600, running i686 kernel. This happens whether 

How many CPUs does the machine have?

> > internal SATA HDD, SSD or external USB drive is used. I first saw this on 
> > kernel 4.0.4, and 4.0.5 is also affected.

OK so this is 32b kernel which might be the most important part. What is
the value of /proc/sys/vm/highmem_is_dirtyable? Also how does your low
mem vs higmem look when you are setting the ratio (cat /proc/zoneinfo)?

It seems Vlastimil is right and a bogus ratelimit_pages is calculated
and your writers are throttled every few pages.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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