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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: introduce fincore()
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 09:11:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <538CA239.3060506@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1401686699-9723-3-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>

On 06/01/2014 10:24 PM, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> Detail about the data format being passed to userspace are explained in
> inline comment, but generally in long entry format, we can choose which
> information is extraced flexibly, so you don't have to waste memory by
> extracting unnecessary information. And with FINCORE_SKIP_HOLE flag,
> we can skip hole pages (not on memory,) which makes us avoid a flood of
> meaningless zero entries when calling on extremely large (but only few
> pages of it are loaded on memory) file.

Something similar could be useful for hugetlbfs too.  For a 1GB page,
it's pretty silly to do 2^18 entries which essentially repeat the same
data in an interface like this.

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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: introduce fincore()
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 09:11:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <538CA239.3060506@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1401686699-9723-3-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>

On 06/01/2014 10:24 PM, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> Detail about the data format being passed to userspace are explained in
> inline comment, but generally in long entry format, we can choose which
> information is extraced flexibly, so you don't have to waste memory by
> extracting unnecessary information. And with FINCORE_SKIP_HOLE flag,
> we can skip hole pages (not on memory,) which makes us avoid a flood of
> meaningless zero entries when calling on extremely large (but only few
> pages of it are loaded on memory) file.

Something similar could be useful for hugetlbfs too.  For a 1GB page,
it's pretty silly to do 2^18 entries which essentially repeat the same
data in an interface like this.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-06-02 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-21  2:26 [PATCH 0/4] pagecache scanning with /proc/kpagecache Naoya Horiguchi
2014-05-21  2:26 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2014-05-21  2:26 ` [PATCH 1/4] radix-tree: add end_index to support ranged iteration Naoya Horiguchi
2014-05-21  2:26   ` Naoya Horiguchi
2014-05-21  8:21   ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2014-05-21  8:21     ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2014-05-21 19:26     ` Naoya Horiguchi
2014-05-21  2:26 ` [PATCH 2/4] fs/proc/page.c: introduce /proc/kpagecache interface Naoya Horiguchi
2014-05-21  2:26   ` Naoya Horiguchi
2014-05-21  2:26 ` [PATCH 3/4] tools/vm/page-types.c: rework on file cache scanning mode Naoya Horiguchi
2014-05-21  2:26   ` Naoya Horiguchi
2014-05-21  2:26 ` [PATCH 4/4] Documentation: update Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt Naoya Horiguchi
2014-05-21  2:26   ` Naoya Horiguchi
2014-05-21 22:42 ` [PATCH 0/4] pagecache scanning with /proc/kpagecache Andrew Morton
2014-05-21 22:42   ` Andrew Morton
2014-05-22  2:19   ` Naoya Horiguchi
     [not found]   ` <537d5ee4.4914e00a.5672.ffff85d5SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2014-05-22  2:33     ` Andrew Morton
2014-05-22  2:33       ` Andrew Morton
2014-05-22  9:50       ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2014-05-22  9:50         ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2014-05-22 10:36         ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-05-22 10:36           ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-05-22 17:47           ` Naoya Horiguchi
2014-05-22 21:02             ` Naoya Horiguchi
2014-06-02  5:24       ` [RFC][PATCH 0/3] mm: introduce fincore() Naoya Horiguchi
2014-06-02  5:24         ` Naoya Horiguchi
2014-06-02  5:24         ` [PATCH 1/3] replace PAGECACHE_TAG_* definition with enumeration Naoya Horiguchi
2014-06-02  5:24           ` Naoya Horiguchi
2014-06-02 16:12           ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-02 16:12             ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-02 16:37             ` Naoya Horiguchi
     [not found]             ` <1401727052-f7v7kykv@n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
2014-06-02 16:45               ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-02 16:45                 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-02 17:14                 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2014-06-02 18:19                   ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-02 18:19                     ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-02 18:48                     ` Naoya Horiguchi
2014-06-02 21:16             ` Andrew Morton
2014-06-02 21:16               ` Andrew Morton
2014-06-02 21:51               ` Naoya Horiguchi
2014-06-02  5:24         ` [PATCH 2/3] mm: introduce fincore() Naoya Horiguchi
2014-06-02  5:24           ` Naoya Horiguchi
     [not found]           ` <1401686699-9723-3-git-send-email-n-horiguchi-PaJj6Psr51x8UrSeD/g0lQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-06-02  6:42             ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-06-02  6:42               ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-06-02  6:42               ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-06-02 14:19               ` Naoya Horiguchi
2014-06-02  7:06             ` Michael Kerrisk
2014-06-02  7:06               ` Michael Kerrisk
2014-06-02  7:06               ` Michael Kerrisk
2014-06-02 14:21               ` Naoya Horiguchi
2014-06-02 12:23           ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-06-02 12:23             ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-06-02 14:52             ` Naoya Horiguchi
2014-06-02 16:11           ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2014-06-02 16:11             ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-02 16:22             ` Naoya Horiguchi
2014-06-02  5:24         ` [PATCH 3/3] selftest: add test code for fincore() Naoya Horiguchi
2014-06-02  5:24           ` Naoya Horiguchi

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