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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 6/8] mm: handle_speculative_fault()
On 01/09/2010 08:17 PM, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> On Friday 08 January 2010 11:53:30 Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 20:20 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course, your other load with MADV_DONTNEED seems to be horrible, and
>>>>> has some nasty spinlock issues, but that looks like a separate deal (I
>>>>> assume that load is just very hard on the pgtable lock).
>>>>
>>>> It's zone->lock, I guess. My test program avoids pgtable lock problem.
>>>
>>> Yeah, I should have looked more at your callchain. That's nasty. Much
>>> worse than the per-mm lock. I thought the page buffering would avoid the
>>> zone lock becoming a huge problem, but clearly not in this case.
>>
>> Right, so I ran some numbers on a multi-socket (2) machine as well:
>>
>> pf/min
>>
>> -tip 56398626
>> -tip + xadd 174753190
>> -tip + speculative 189274319
>> -tip + xadd + speculative 200174641
>
> Has anyone tried these patches with ramzswap? Nitin do they help with the locking
> issues you mentioned?
>

Locking problem with ramzswap seems completely unrelated to what is being discussed here.

Thanks,
Nitin


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