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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: davidm@hpl.hp.com
Cc: davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, wli@holomorphy.com, torvalds@osdl.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: copy_page_range()
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 10:46:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040809104616.3ce07ddf.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16663.17268.247682.953102@napali.hpl.hp.com>

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 02:27:16 -0700
David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> wrote:

> >>>>> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 02:04:58 -0700, William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> said:
> 
>   William> These results are actually consistent with large-memory
>   William> ia32.  Instruction-level profiles showed that the largest
>   William> overhead in copy_page_range() on such ia32 boxen appeared
>   William> to be mm->rss++.
> 
> Hmmh, for me, the single biggest stall seems to come from the pmd_none()
> check in free_one_pmd().

Right, that is what gets hit on sparc64 too.

On ia32, the tables are half the size, thus half the amount of
memory accesses per table traversal.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-09 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-07  7:05 copy_page_range() David S. Miller
2004-08-07  8:07 ` copy_page_range() William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-11  7:07   ` copy_page_range() David S. Miller
2004-08-11  7:35     ` copy_page_range() William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-11 16:13     ` copy_page_range() Linus Torvalds
2004-08-11 20:45       ` copy_page_range() David S. Miller
2004-08-12  3:53       ` copy_page_range() David S. Miller
2004-08-09  9:01 ` copy_page_range() David Mosberger
2004-08-09  9:04   ` copy_page_range() William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-09  9:27     ` copy_page_range() David Mosberger
2004-08-09  9:29       ` copy_page_range() William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-09 10:01         ` copy_page_range() David Mosberger
2004-08-09 17:46       ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-08-09 17:08     ` copy_page_range() Linus Torvalds
2004-08-09 18:49       ` copy_page_range() William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-09 17:45   ` copy_page_range() David S. Miller

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