Messages in this thread | | | From | Blaisorblade <> | Subject | Re: [patch 00/14] remap_file_pages protection support | Date | Wed, 3 May 2006 02:25:49 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 02 May 2006 05:45, Nick Piggin wrote: > blaisorblade@yahoo.it wrote: > > This will be useful since the VMA lookup at fault time can be a > > bottleneck for some programs (I've received a report about this from > > Ulrich Drepper and I've been told that also Val Henson from Intel is > > interested about this). I guess that since we use RB-trees, the slowness > > is also due to the poor cache locality of RB-trees (since RB nodes are > > within VMAs but aren't accessed together with their content), compared > > for instance with radix trees where the lookup has high cache locality > > (but they have however space usage problems, possibly bigger, on 64-bit > > machines).
> Let's try get back to the good old days when people actually reported > their bugs (togther will *real* numbers) to the mailing lists. That way, > everybody gets to think about and discuss the problem.
I've not seen the numbers indeed, I've been told of a problem with a "customer program" and Ingo connected my work with this problem. Frankly, I've been always astonished about how looking up a 10-level tree can be slow. Poor cache locality is the only thing that I could think about.
That said, it was an add-on, not the original motivation of the work. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com
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