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Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows VM slow boot
From: |
Mel Gorman |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows VM slow boot |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:25:41 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:56:59AM +0100, Richard Davies wrote:
> [ adding linux-mm - previously at http://marc.info/?t=134511509400003 ]
>
> Hi Rik,
>
I'm not Rik but hi anyway.
> Since qemu-kvm 1.2.0 and Linux 3.6.0-rc5 came out, I thought that I would
> retest with these.
>
Ok. 3.6.0-rc5 contains [c67fe375: mm: compaction: Abort async compaction
if locks are contended or taking too long] that should have helped mitigate
some of the lock contention problem but not all of it as we'll see later.
> The typical symptom now appears to be that the Windows VMs boot reasonably
> fast,
I see that this is an old-ish bug but I did not read the full history.
Is it now booting faster than 3.5.0 was? I'm asking because I'm
interested to see if commit c67fe375 helped your particular case.
> but then there is high CPU use and load for many minutes afterwards -
> the high CPU use is both for the qemu-kvm processes themselves and also for
> % sys.
>
Ok, I cannot comment on the userspace portion of things but the kernel
portion still indicates that there is a high percentage of time on what
appears to be lock contention.
> I attach a perf report which seems to show that the high CPU use is in the
> memory manager.
>
A follow-on from commit c67fe375 was the following patch (author cc'd)
which addresses lock contention in isolate_migratepages_range where your
perf report indicates that we're spending 95% of the time. Would you be
willing to test it please?
---8<---
From: Shaohua Li <address@hidden>
Subject: mm: compaction: check lock contention first before taking lock
isolate_migratepages_range will take zone->lru_lock first and check if the
lock is contented, if yes, it will release the lock. This isn't
efficient. If the lock is truly contented, a lock/unlock pair will
increase the lock contention. We'd better check if the lock is contended
first. compact_trylock_irqsave perfectly meets the requirement.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <address@hidden>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <address@hidden>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <address@hidden>
---
mm/compaction.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN
mm/compaction.c~mm-compaction-check-lock-contention-first-before-taking-lock
mm/compaction.c
---
a/mm/compaction.c~mm-compaction-check-lock-contention-first-before-taking-lock
+++ a/mm/compaction.c
@@ -349,8 +349,9 @@ isolate_migratepages_range(struct zone *
/* Time to isolate some pages for migration */
cond_resched();
- spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lru_lock, flags);
- locked = true;
+ locked = compact_trylock_irqsave(&zone->lru_lock, &flags, cc);
+ if (!locked)
+ return 0;
for (; low_pfn < end_pfn; low_pfn++) {
struct page *page;
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows slow boot: contractor wanted, Richard Davies, 2012/09/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows VM slow boot, Richard Davies, 2012/09/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows VM slow boot,
Mel Gorman <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows VM slow boot, Richard Davies, 2012/09/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows VM slow boot, Mel Gorman, 2012/09/13
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] make the compaction "skip ahead" logic robust, Rik van Riel, 2012/09/13
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH -v2 2/2] make the compaction "skip ahead" logic robust, Rik van Riel, 2012/09/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH -v2 2/2] make the compaction "skip ahead" logic robust, Richard Davies, 2012/09/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH -v2 2/2] make the compaction "skip ahead" logic robust, Richard Davies, 2012/09/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH -v2 2/2] make the compaction "skip ahead" logic robust, Mel Gorman, 2012/09/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH -v2 2/2] make the compaction "skip ahead" logic robust, Richard Davies, 2012/09/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH -v2 2/2] make the compaction "skip ahead" logic robust, Mel Gorman, 2012/09/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH -v2 2/2] make the compaction "skip ahead" logic robust, Richard Davies, 2012/09/18