From: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, peterz@infradead.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, kirill@shutemov.name,
ak@linux.intel.com, dave@stgolabs.net, jack@suse.cz,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
haren@linux.vnet.ibm.com, khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
npiggin@gmail.com, bsingharora@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v4 00/20] Speculative page faults
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:58:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <04119fc4-2e7c-a56d-db4c-23860e6cc9a0@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170609163520.GB9332@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On 09/06/2017 18:35, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 09-06-17 17:25:51, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> [...]
>> Thanks Michal for your feedback.
>>
>> I mostly focused on this database workload since this is the one where
>> we hit the mmap_sem bottleneck when running on big node. On my usual
>> victim node, I checked for basic usage like kernel build time, but I
>> agree that's clearly not enough.
>>
>> I try to find details about the 'kbench' you mentioned, but I didn't get
>> any valid entry.
>> Would you please point me on this or any other bench tool you think will
>> be useful here ?
>
> Sorry I meant kernbech (aka parallel kernel build). Other highly threaded
> workloads doing a lot of page faults and address space modification
> would be good to see as well. I wish I could give you much more
> comprehensive list but I am not very good at benchmarks.
>
Thanks Michal, I found kernbench 0.5, I will give it a try.
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-09 14:20 [RFC v4 00/20] Speculative page faults Laurent Dufour
2017-06-09 14:20 ` [RFC v4 01/20] mm: Dont assume page-table invariance during faults Laurent Dufour
2017-06-09 14:20 ` [RFC v4 02/20] mm: Prepare for FAULT_FLAG_SPECULATIVE Laurent Dufour
2017-06-09 14:20 ` [RFC v4 03/20] mm: Introduce pte_spinlock Laurent Dufour
2017-06-09 14:20 ` [RFC v4 04/20] mm: VMA sequence count Laurent Dufour
2017-06-09 14:20 ` [RFC v4 05/20] mm: RCU free VMAs Laurent Dufour
2017-06-09 14:20 ` [RFC v4 06/20] mm: Provide speculative fault infrastructure Laurent Dufour
2017-06-09 14:20 ` [RFC v4 07/20] mm/spf: Try spin lock in speculative path Laurent Dufour
2017-06-09 14:20 ` [RFC v4 08/20] mm/spf: Fix fe.sequence init in __handle_mm_fault() Laurent Dufour
2017-06-09 14:20 ` [RFC v4 09/20] mm/spf: don't set fault entry's fields if locking failed Laurent Dufour
2017-06-09 14:20 ` [RFC v4 10/20] mm/spf; fix lock dependency against mapping->i_mmap_rwsem Laurent Dufour
2017-06-09 14:21 ` [RFC v4 11/20] mm/spf: Protect changes to vm_flags Laurent Dufour
2017-06-09 14:21 ` [RFC v4 12/20] mm/spf Protect vm_policy's changes against speculative pf Laurent Dufour
2017-06-09 14:21 ` [RFC v4 13/20] mm/spf: Add check on the VMA's flags Laurent Dufour
2017-06-09 14:21 ` [RFC v4 14/20] mm/spf: protect madvise vs speculative pf Laurent Dufour
2017-06-09 14:21 ` [RFC v4 15/20] mm/spf: protect mremap() against " Laurent Dufour
2017-06-09 14:21 ` [RFC v4 16/20] mm/spf: Don't call user fault callback in the speculative path Laurent Dufour
2017-06-09 14:21 ` [RFC v4 17/20] x86/mm: Add speculative pagefault handling Laurent Dufour
2017-06-09 14:21 ` [RFC v4 18/20] x86/mm: Update the handle_speculative_fault's path Laurent Dufour
2017-06-09 14:21 ` [RFC v4 19/20] powerpc/mm: Add speculative page fault Laurent Dufour
2017-06-09 14:21 ` [RFC v4 20/20] mm/spf: Clear FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE in the speculative path Laurent Dufour
2017-06-09 15:01 ` [RFC v4 00/20] Speculative page faults Michal Hocko
2017-06-09 15:25 ` Laurent Dufour
2017-06-09 16:35 ` Michal Hocko
2017-06-09 16:59 ` Tim Chen
2017-06-13 10:19 ` Laurent Dufour
2017-06-13 9:58 ` Laurent Dufour [this message]
2017-06-09 18:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-12 10:20 ` Jan Kara
2017-06-13 10:24 ` Laurent Dufour
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