Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:19:31 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: Page fault scalability patch V18: Drop first acquisition of ptl |
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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> More generally, I would be interested to know what sorts of > applications or benchmarks show scalability problems on large machines > due to contention on mm->page_table_lock.
Number crunching apps that use vast amounts of memory through MPI or large databases etc. They stall for a long time during their initialization phase without these patches. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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