Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/8] Speculative pagefault -v3
[Posted January 12, 2010 by corbet]
| From: |
| Peter Zijlstra <peterz-AT-infradead.org> |
| To: |
| Rik van Riel <riel-AT-redhat.com> |
| Subject: |
| Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/8] Speculative pagefault -v3 |
| Date: |
| Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:46:13 +0100 |
| Cc: |
| "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck-AT-linux.vnet.ibm.com>, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu-AT-jp.fujitsu.com>, "linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org>, "linux-mm-AT-kvack.org" <linux-mm-AT-kvack.org>, "minchan.kim-AT-gmail.com" <minchan.kim-AT-gmail.com>, cl-AT-linux-foundation.org, "hugh.dickins" <hugh.dickins-AT-tiscali.co.uk>, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin-AT-yahoo.com.au>, Ingo Molnar <mingo-AT-elte.hu>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds-AT-linux-foundation.org> |
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 16:41 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 01/04/2010 01:24 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Patch series implementing speculative page faults for x86.
>
> Fun, but why do we need this?
People were once again concerned with mmap_sem contention on threaded
apps on large machines. Kame-san posted some patches, but I felt they
weren't quite crazy enough ;-)
> What improvements did you measure?
I got it not to crash :-) Although I'd not be surprised if other people
do manage, it needs more eyes.
> I'll take a look over the patches to see whether they're
> sane...
More appreciated, thanks!
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