All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>, Ning Qu <quning@gmail.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	anton@samba.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 1/2] mm: introduce vm_ops->map_pages()
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 02:18:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140228001858.GC8034@node.dhcp.inet.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <530FBD8F.7090304@linux.intel.com>

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 02:34:55PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> Kirill's git test suite runs did show that it _can_ hurt in some cases.

And see last use-case for how much it can hurt. :)

It shouldn't differs much for the same *number* of pages between [u]archs
unless setup of the pte is significantly more expensive or page fault is
faster.

But of course, I can move FAULT_AROUND_PAGES to arch/x86/ and let
architecture mantainers to decide if they want the feature. ;)

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
the body to majordomo@kvack.org.  For more info on Linux MM,
see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ .
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>, Ning Qu <quning@gmail.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	anton@samba.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 1/2] mm: introduce vm_ops->map_pages()
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 02:18:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140228001858.GC8034@node.dhcp.inet.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <530FBD8F.7090304@linux.intel.com>

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 02:34:55PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> Kirill's git test suite runs did show that it _can_ hurt in some cases.

And see last use-case for how much it can hurt. :)

It shouldn't differs much for the same *number* of pages between [u]archs
unless setup of the pte is significantly more expensive or page fault is
faster.

But of course, I can move FAULT_AROUND_PAGES to arch/x86/ and let
architecture mantainers to decide if they want the feature. ;)

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-28  0:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-27 19:53 [PATCHv3 0/2] mm: map few pages around fault address if they are in page cache Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-02-27 19:53 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-02-27 19:53 ` [PATCHv3 1/2] mm: introduce vm_ops->map_pages() Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-02-27 19:53   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-02-27 21:59   ` Dave Hansen
2014-02-27 21:59     ` Dave Hansen
2014-02-27 22:06     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-02-27 22:06       ` Linus Torvalds
2014-02-27 22:34       ` Dave Hansen
2014-02-27 22:34         ` Dave Hansen
2014-02-28  0:18         ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2014-02-28  0:18           ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-02-28 11:50         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-02-28 11:50           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-02-27 22:08     ` Andrew Morton
2014-02-27 22:08       ` Andrew Morton
2014-03-03 23:16   ` Andrew Morton
2014-03-04  1:26     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-03-04  1:26       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-03-04  1:26       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-03-05  0:04     ` Rusty Russell
2014-03-05  0:04       ` Rusty Russell
2014-03-05 20:02       ` Andrew Morton
2014-03-05 20:02         ` Andrew Morton
2014-07-24  3:33   ` Sasha Levin
2014-07-24  3:33     ` Sasha Levin
2014-07-24  6:53     ` Andrey Ryabinin
2014-07-24  6:53       ` Andrey Ryabinin
2014-07-24 12:48       ` Sasha Levin
2014-07-24 12:48         ` Sasha Levin
2014-07-24 13:05     ` Sasha Levin
2014-07-24 13:05       ` Sasha Levin
2014-07-24 13:30       ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2014-07-24 13:30         ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2014-07-28  7:43     ` [PATCH] mm: don't allow fault_around_bytes to be 0 Andrey Ryabinin
2014-07-28  7:43       ` Andrey Ryabinin
2014-07-28  7:47       ` Andrey Ryabinin
2014-07-28  7:47         ` Andrey Ryabinin
2014-07-28  9:36       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-07-28  9:36         ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-07-28  9:36         ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-07-28 10:27         ` Andrey Ryabinin
2014-07-28 10:27           ` Andrey Ryabinin
2014-07-28 10:27           ` Andrey Ryabinin
2014-07-28 10:27           ` Andrey Ryabinin
2014-07-28 10:52           ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-07-28 10:52             ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-07-28 12:32           ` Sasha Levin
2014-07-28 12:32             ` Sasha Levin
2014-07-28 22:43           ` David Rientjes
2014-07-28 22:43             ` David Rientjes
2014-07-28 15:26         ` Dave Hansen
2014-07-28 15:26           ` Dave Hansen
2014-02-27 19:53 ` [PATCHv3 2/2] mm: implement ->map_pages for page cache Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-02-27 19:53   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-02-27 21:47   ` Andrew Morton
2014-02-27 21:47     ` Andrew Morton
2014-02-28  0:31     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-02-28  0:31       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-04-02 18:03   ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2014-04-02 18:03     ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2014-04-02 19:07     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-04-02 19:07       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-02-27 21:28 ` [PATCHv3 0/2] mm: map few pages around fault address if they are in " Linus Torvalds
2014-02-27 21:28   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-02-28  0:10   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-02-28  0:10     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-02-28  3:52     ` Wilcox, Matthew R
2014-02-28  3:52       ` Wilcox, Matthew R
2014-02-28 23:08     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-02-28 23:08       ` Linus Torvalds
2014-03-12 14:22   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-03-12 14:22     ` Kirill A. Shutemov

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20140228001858.GC8034@node.dhcp.inet.fi \
    --to=kirill@shutemov.name \
    --cc=ak@linux.intel.com \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=anton@samba.org \
    --cc=benh@kernel.crashing.org \
    --cc=dave.hansen@linux.intel.com \
    --cc=david@fromorbit.com \
    --cc=kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com \
    --cc=linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
    --cc=matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com \
    --cc=mgorman@suse.de \
    --cc=paulus@samba.org \
    --cc=quning@gmail.com \
    --cc=riel@redhat.com \
    --cc=torvalds@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.