From: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pgd_free, pmd_free, and pte_free trapping memory.
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:33:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040317203313.GA32161@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040316112424.GA20203@lnx-holt>
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 04:53:01PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 10:20:16AM -0600, Jack Steiner wrote:
> > The test harness ensures that the timing is done with warm TLBs & cold
> > cache (data not in cpu caches):
> >
> > 3.1 usec 16K node local memory
> > 6.1 usec 16K remote memory
> >
> > 12.5 usec 64K node local memory
> > 24.5 usec 64K remote memory
> >
> > I ran this on Itanium 2 1300MHz cpus. However, processor core speed does
> > not significantly affect timings since most time is spent waiting for
> > off chip memory access.
>
> Well, pages on the per-cpu list are supposed to be still cache hot..
For some workloads that is true.
The workload that Robin mentioned in the original mail allocated 32 PT
pages on each fork. Even if the pages were recently used, in many
cases a large portion of those pages are probably not cache-resident.
--
Thanks
Jack Steiner (steiner@sgi.com) 651-683-5302
Principal Engineer SGI - Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-16 11:24 pgd_free, pmd_free, and pte_free trapping memory Robin Holt
2004-03-16 14:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-03-16 15:24 ` Robin Holt
2004-03-16 15:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-03-17 12:27 ` Robin Holt
2004-03-17 16:20 ` Jack Steiner
2004-03-17 16:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-03-17 17:10 ` David Mosberger
2004-03-17 20:33 ` Jack Steiner [this message]
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