Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Two blk-mq related topics

2018-01-30 Thread Mel Gorman
remind me, I may be able to re-execute the tests in a 4.16-rcX before LSF/MM so you have other data to work with. Unfortunately, I'll not be able to make LSF/MM this time due to personal commitments that conflict and are unmovable. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs

Re: [Nbd] [PATCH 3/4] treewide: convert PF_MEMALLOC manipulations to new helpers

2017-04-06 Thread Mel Gorman
not used for network traffic that is not involved with swap. This means that under heavy swap load, it was perfectly possible for unrelated traffic to get dropped for quite some time. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs

LSF/MM 2015 Reminder about call for proposals

2015-01-09 Thread Mel Gorman
Lespinasse Sasha Levin -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

LSF/MM 2015 Call For Proposals

2014-11-24 Thread Mel Gorman
he program committee: Storage: James Bottomley Martin Petersen Christoph Hellwig Filesystem: Jeff Layton Ric Wheeler Jan Kara Trond Myklebust Theodore Ts'o MM: Rik van Riel Michel Lespinasse Sasha

Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] really large storage sectors - going beyond 4096 bytes

2014-01-30 Thread Mel Gorman
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 09:52:46PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:57:48AM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote: > > So far on the table is > > > > 1. major filesystem overhawl > > 2. major vm overhawl > > 3. use compound pages as they

Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] really large storage sectors - going beyond 4096 bytes

2014-01-24 Thread Mel Gorman
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 02:47:10PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jan 2014, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > Large block support was proposed years ago by Christoph Lameter > > (http://lwn.net/Articles/232757/). I think I was just getting started > > in the community

Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] really large storage sectors - going beyond 4096 bytes

2014-01-24 Thread Mel Gorman
; by the kernel and the MMU page size then I don't know but it would be a > > fairly large amount of surgery and need a lot of design work. Minimally, > > anything dealing with an MMU-sized amount of memory would now need to > > deal with sub-pages and there would need to b

Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] really large storage sectors - going beyond 4096 bytes

2014-01-23 Thread Mel Gorman
at extra work is needed (and how big is this > piece of work)? > Offhand no idea. For fsblock, probably a similar amount of work than had to be done in 2007 and I'd expect it would still require filesystem awareness problems that Dave Chinner pointer out earlier. For large block, it

Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] really large storage sectors - going beyond 4096 bytes

2014-01-22 Thread Mel Gorman
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 09:58:46AM -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote: > On 01/22/2014 09:34 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 09:10:48AM -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote: > >>On 01/22/2014 04:34 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > >>>On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:04:29PM -0500, Ric

Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] really large storage sectors - going beyond 4096 bytes

2014-01-22 Thread Mel Gorman
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 09:10:48AM -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote: > On 01/22/2014 04:34 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:04:29PM -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote: > >>One topic that has been lurking forever at the edges is the current > >>4k limitation for fi

Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] really large storage sectors - going beyond 4096 bytes

2014-01-22 Thread Mel Gorman
ould expect that a show-stopper for any proposal is requiring high-order allocations to succeed for the system to behave correctly. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org

LSF/MM 2014 Call For Proposals

2013-12-20 Thread Mel Gorman
MM: Rik van Riel Michel Lespinasse -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: 3.7-rc8 boot failure due to recent workqueue-related patch

2012-12-09 Thread Mel Gorman
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 04:50:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sat, 8 Dec 2012, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > > Commit 8852aac2 (workqueue: mod_delayed_work_on() shouldn't queue timer on > > 0 delay) is causing the following boot failure for me. Found by bisec

3.7-rc8 boot failure due to recent workqueue-related patch

2012-12-08 Thread Mel Gorman
- not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [PATCH] fix page_alloc for larger I/O segments (improved)

2007-12-16 Thread Mel Gorman
On (14/12/07 13:07), Mark Lord didst pronounce: > > > That (also) works for me here, regularly generating 64KB I/O segments with > SLAB. > Brilliant. Thanks a lot Mark. -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center Univers

Re: QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER: not working in 2.6.24 ?

2007-12-16 Thread Mel Gorman
%6d v: %8lu p: %8lu .", ppfn, contig_count, block_number, vpfn, ppfn); contig_count = 1; block_number++; } ppfn_last = ppfn; } print

Re: QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER: not working in 2.6.24 ?

2007-12-14 Thread Mel Gorman
== 0) { perror("fread"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } ppfn = (unsigned long)pagemap_entry; printf("vpfn = %8lu ppfn = %8lu\n", vpfn, ppfn); } close(pagemap_fd); munmap(anonmapping, MAPSIZE);

Re: [PATCH] fix page_alloc for larger I/O segments (improved)

2007-12-14 Thread Mel Gorman
page of the appropriate migrate type. This patch restores behaviour of rmqueue_bulk() preserving the physical order of pages returned by the allocator without incurring increased search costs for anti-fragmentation. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- page_alloc.c | 11 +++

Re: QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER: not working in 2.6.24 ?

2007-12-14 Thread Mel Gorman
ysical ordering of pages returned. I'm setting up to run some performance benchmarks of the candidate fix merged into the -mm tree to see if the search shows up or not. I'm testing against 2.6.25-rc5 but it'll take a few hours to complete. -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student