Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] mm: support parallel free of memory

From: Aaron Lu
Date: Thu Mar 16 2017 - 10:14:50 EST


On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 09:51:22PM +0800, Aaron Lu wrote:
> Considering that we are mostly improving for memory intensive apps, the
> default setting should probably be: max_active = node_number with each
> worker freeing 2G memory.

In case people want to give this setting a try, here is what to do.

On 2-nodes EP:
# echo 2 > /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/batch_free_wq/max_active
# echo 1030 > /sys/kernel/debug/parallel_free/max_gather_batch_count

On 4-nodes EX:
# echo 4 > /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/batch_free_wq/max_active
# echo 1030 > /sys/kernel/debug/parallel_free/max_gather_batch_count