Re: Problems with swapping in v4.5-rc on POWER

2016-03-08 Thread Hugh Dickins via Linuxppc-dev
On Mon, 7 Mar 2016, Michael Ellerman wrote: > On Fri, 2016-03-04 at 09:58 -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > > The alternative bisection was as unsatisfactory as the first: > > again it fingered an irrelevant merge (rather than any commit > > pulled in by that merge) as the bad commit. > > > > It s

Re: Problems with swapping in v4.5-rc on POWER

2016-03-06 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Fri, 2016-03-04 at 09:58 -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > The alternative bisection was as unsatisfactory as the first: > again it fingered an irrelevant merge (rather than any commit > pulled in by that merge) as the bad commit. > > It seems this issue is too intermittent for bisection to be us

Re: Problems with swapping in v4.5-rc on POWER

2016-03-04 Thread Hugh Dickins via Linuxppc-dev
On Thu, 3 Mar 2016, Michael Ellerman wrote: > On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 12:49 -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Feb 2016, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: >

Re: Problems with swapping in v4.5-rc on POWER

2016-03-02 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 12:49 -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Fri, 26 Feb 2016, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > > On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Can you test the impact of the merg

Re: Problems with swapping in v4.5-rc on POWER

2016-03-02 Thread Hugh Dickins via Linuxppc-dev
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > > > > > > > Can you test the impact of the merge listed below ?(ie, revert the > > > > merge and see if > > > > w

Re: Problems with swapping in v4.5-rc on POWER

2016-02-26 Thread Hugh Dickins via Linuxppc-dev
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > > > > > Can you test the impact of the merge listed below ?(ie, revert the merge > > > and see if > > > we can reproduce and also verify with merge applied). Th

Re: Problems with swapping in v4.5-rc on POWER

2016-02-25 Thread Hugh Dickins via Linuxppc-dev
On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > > > Can you test the impact of the merge listed below ?(ie, revert the merge > > and see if > > we can reproduce and also verify with merge applied). This will give us a > > set of commits to look closer.

Re: Problems with swapping in v4.5-rc on POWER

2016-02-24 Thread Hugh Dickins via Linuxppc-dev
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > Can you test the impact of the merge listed below ?(ie, revert the merge and > see if > we can reproduce and also verify with merge applied). This will give us a > set of commits to look closer. We had quiet a lot of page table > related changes go

Re: Problems with swapping in v4.5-rc on POWER

2016-02-24 Thread Hugh Dickins via Linuxppc-dev
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > I do run tests on G5, but obviously not rigorously enough. I kicked off a few > kernel builds on mine and it survived, though once it hits swap it's almost > unusably slow. I'll leave it running overnight and see if I hit anything. Oh yes, I'd forg

Re: Problems with swapping in v4.5-rc on POWER

2016-02-24 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Hugh Dickins writes: > I've plagiarized the subject from Paulus's "Problems with THP" mail > last weekend; but my similar problems are on PowerMac G5 baremetal, > with 4kB pages, not capable of THP and no THP configured in. > > Under heavily swapping load, running kernel builds on tmpfs in limite

Re: Problems with swapping in v4.5-rc on POWER

2016-02-24 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Wed, 2016-02-24 at 18:10 -0800, Hugh Dickins via Linuxppc-dev wrote: > I've plagiarized the subject from Paulus's "Problems with THP" mail > last weekend; but my similar problems are on PowerMac G5 baremetal, > with 4kB pages, not capable of THP and no THP configured in. > > Under heavily swap