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Date:      Fri, 3 Jun 2016 11:29:13 -0600
From:      Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        Alan Cox <alc@rice.edu>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, alc@freebsd.org,  Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>,  performance@freebsd.org, "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: PostgreSQL performance on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <CAOtMX2jZqAR8FiYZUsU8yDJ5n4ZAmv2WDu7t90ZO3vuWVUccaQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160603172633.GY38613@kib.kiev.ua>
References:  <20140627125613.GT93733@kib.kiev.ua> <201408121409.40653.jhb@freebsd.org> <CAJUyCcMAw-etXh3gByLE_xpLOkO=LZihUVVfzgAtSb809QcPWA@mail.gmail.com> <201408141147.45698.jhb@freebsd.org> <53ECFDC8.1070200@rice.edu> <CAOtMX2iH7=AAvHWg7xw=u5nyO6ANF1J3uVMKPsf%2BV=PYBEumvA@mail.gmail.com> <20160603172633.GY38613@kib.kiev.ua>

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On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Konstantin Belousov
<kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 09:29:16AM -0600, Alan Somers wrote:
>> I notice that, with the exception of the VM_PHYSSEG_MAX change, these
>> patches never made it into head or ports.  Are they unsuitable for low
>> core-count machines, or is there some other reason not to commit them?
>>  If not, what would it take to get these into 11.0 or 11.1 ?
>
> The fast page fault handler was redesigned and committed in r269728
> and r270011 (with several follow-ups).
> Instead of lock-less buffer queues iterators, Jeff changed buffer allocator
> to use uma, see r289279.  Other improvement to the buffer cache was
> committed as r267255.
>
> What was not committed is the aggressive pre-population of the phys objects
> mem queue, and a knob to further split NUMA domains into smaller domains.
> The later change is rotten.
>
> In fact, I think that with that load, what you would see right now on
> HEAD, is the contention on vm_page_queue_free_mtx.  There are plans to
> handle it.

Thanks for the update.  Is it still recommended to enable the
multithreaded pagedaemon?



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