Re: regression caused by cgroups optimization in 3.17-rc2

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Wed Sep 10 2014 - 13:05:17 EST


On Wed 10-09-14 09:57:56, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 09/10/2014 09:29 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > I do not have a bigger machine to play with unfortunately. I think the
> > patch makes sense on its own. I would really appreciate if you could
> > give it a try on your machine with !root memcg case to see how much it
> > helped. I would expect similar results to your previous testing without
> > the revert and Johannes' patch.
>
> So you want to see before/after this patch:
>
> Subject: [PATCH] mm, memcg: Do not kill release batching in
> free_pages_and_swap_cache
>
> And you want it on top of a kernel with the revert or without?

Revert doesn't make any difference if you run the load inside a memcg
(without any limit set).
So just before and after the patch would be sufficient.

Thanks a lot Dave!
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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