Re: Kswapd in 3.2.0-rc5 is a CPU hog

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:56:58 +0900
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hmm, if I understand correctly,
> 
>  - dd's speed down is caused by kswapd's cpu consumption.
>  - kswapd's cpu consumption is enlarged by shrink_slab() (by perf)
>  - kswapd can't stop because NORMAL zone is small.
>  - memory reclaim speed is enough because dd can't get enough cpu.
> 
> I wonder reducing to call shrink_slab() may be a help but I'm not sure
> where lock conention comes from...

Nikolay, it sounds as if this problem has only recently started
happening?  Was 3.1 OK?

If so, we should work out what we did post-3.1 to cause this.
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