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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 00/17] khwasan: kernel hardware assisted address sanitizer
On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 14:45:08 +0200 Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> wrote:

> >> What kind of memory consumption testing would you like to see?
> >
> > Well, 100kb or so is a teeny amount on virtually any machine. I'm
> > assuming the savings are (much) more significant once the machine gets
> > loaded up and doing work?
>
> So with clean kernel after boot we get 40 kb memory usage. With KASAN
> it is ~120 kb, which is 200% overhead. With KHWASAN it's 50 kb, which
> is 25% overhead. This should approximately scale to any amounts of
> used slab memory. For example with 100 mb memory usage we would get
> +200 mb for KASAN and +25 mb with KHWASAN. (And KASAN also requires
> quarantine for better use-after-free detection). I can explicitly
> mention the overhead in %s in the changelog.
>
> If you think it makes sense, I can also make separate measurements
> with some workload. What kind of workload should I use?

Whatever workload people were running when they encountered problems
with KASAN memory consumption ;)

I dunno, something simple. `find / > /dev/null'?

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