From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [rfc] lockless pagecache
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:26:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050628012646.GP3334@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42C09AB3.7030907@yahoo.com.au>
Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
>> Shared memory overhead doesn't show up on any of the database benchmarks
>> I've seen, as they tend to use huge pages that are locked in memory, and
>> thus don't tend to access the page cache at all after ramp up.
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 10:32:51AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> To be quite honest I don't have any real workloads here that stress
> it, however I was told that it is a problem for oracle database. If
> there is anyone else who has problems then I'd be interested to hear
> them as well.
It's vlm-specific.
-- wli
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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [rfc] lockless pagecache
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:26:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050628012646.GP3334@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42C09AB3.7030907@yahoo.com.au>
Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
>> Shared memory overhead doesn't show up on any of the database benchmarks
>> I've seen, as they tend to use huge pages that are locked in memory, and
>> thus don't tend to access the page cache at all after ramp up.
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 10:32:51AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> To be quite honest I don't have any real workloads here that stress
> it, however I was told that it is a problem for oracle database. If
> there is anyone else who has problems then I'd be interested to hear
> them as well.
It's vlm-specific.
-- wli
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Thread overview: 108+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-27 6:29 [rfc] lockless pagecache Nick Piggin
2005-06-27 6:29 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-27 6:32 ` [patch 1] mm: PG_free flag Nick Piggin
2005-06-27 6:32 ` [patch 2] mm: speculative get_page Nick Piggin
2005-06-27 6:33 ` [patch 3] radix tree: lookup_slot Nick Piggin
2005-06-27 6:34 ` [patch 4] radix tree: lockless readside Nick Piggin
2005-06-27 6:34 ` [patch 5] mm: lockless pagecache lookups Nick Piggin
2005-06-27 6:35 ` [patch 6] mm: spinlock tree_lock Nick Piggin
2005-06-27 14:12 ` [patch 2] mm: speculative get_page William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-27 14:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-28 0:03 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28 0:03 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28 0:56 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28 0:56 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28 1:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-28 1:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-28 1:42 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28 1:42 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28 4:06 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-28 4:06 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-28 4:50 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28 4:50 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28 5:08 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-28 5:08 ` [patch 2] mm: speculative get_page, " David S. Miller, Nick Piggin
2005-06-28 5:34 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28 5:34 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28 14:19 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-28 14:19 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-28 15:43 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28 15:43 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28 17:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-06-28 17:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-06-28 23:10 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28 23:10 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28 21:32 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-06-28 21:32 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-06-28 22:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-06-28 22:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-06-28 12:45 ` Andy Whitcroft
2005-06-28 12:45 ` Andy Whitcroft
2005-06-28 13:16 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28 13:16 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28 16:02 ` Dave Hansen
2005-06-28 16:02 ` Dave Hansen
2005-06-29 16:31 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-29 16:31 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-29 18:43 ` Dave Hansen
2005-06-29 18:43 ` Dave Hansen
2005-06-29 21:22 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-29 21:22 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-29 16:31 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-29 16:31 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-27 6:43 ` VFS scalability (was: [rfc] lockless pagecache) Nick Piggin
2005-06-27 6:43 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-27 7:13 ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-27 7:13 ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-27 7:33 ` VFS scalability Nick Piggin
2005-06-27 7:33 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-27 7:44 ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-27 7:44 ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-27 8:03 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-27 8:03 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-27 7:46 ` [rfc] lockless pagecache Andrew Morton
2005-06-27 7:46 ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-27 8:02 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-27 8:02 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-27 8:15 ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-27 8:15 ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-27 8:28 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-27 8:28 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-27 8:56 ` Lincoln Dale
2005-06-27 8:56 ` Lincoln Dale
2005-06-27 9:04 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-27 9:04 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-27 18:14 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-06-27 18:14 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-06-27 18:50 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-06-27 18:50 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-06-27 19:05 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-06-27 19:05 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-06-27 19:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-06-27 19:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-06-27 19:42 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-06-27 19:42 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-07-05 15:11 ` Sonny Rao
2005-07-05 15:11 ` Sonny Rao
2005-07-05 15:31 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-07-05 15:31 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-07-05 15:37 ` Sonny Rao
2005-07-05 15:37 ` Sonny Rao
2005-06-27 13:17 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-06-27 13:17 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-06-28 0:32 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28 0:32 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-28 1:26 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2005-06-28 1:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-27 14:08 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-27 14:08 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-27 17:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-06-27 17:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-06-29 10:49 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2005-06-29 10:49 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2005-06-29 11:38 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-29 11:38 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-30 3:32 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2005-06-30 3:32 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-06-28 11:56 David Kearster
2005-06-28 12:20 ` Nick Piggin
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