Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Sep 2018 01:01:09 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: Plumbers 2018 - Performance and Scalability Microconference |
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On Wed, 5 Sep 2018, Laurent Dufour wrote: > On 05/09/2018 17:10, Christopher Lameter wrote: > > Large page sizes also reduce contention there. > > That's true for the page fault path, but for process's actions manipulating the > memory process's layout (mmap,munmap,madvise,mprotect) the impact is minimal > unless the code has to manipulate the page tables.
And how exactly are you going to do any of those operations _without_ manipulating the page tables?
Thanks,
tglx
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