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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Raghavendra KT <raghavendra.kt.linux@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Raghavendra KT <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND][PATCH] mm: vmstats: tlb flush counters
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 12:06:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130722100605.GA1148@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51E95932.5030902@sr71.net>


* Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> wrote:

> On 07/19/2013 04:38 AM, Raghavendra KT wrote:
> > While measuring non - PLE performance, one of the bottleneck, I am seeing is
> > flush tlbs.
> > perf had helped in alaysing a bit there, but this patch would help
> > in precise calculation. It will aslo help in tuning the PLE window
> > experiments (larger PLE window
> > would affect remote flush TLBs)
> 
> Interesting.  What workload is that?  I've been having problems finding
> workloads that are too consumed with TLB flushes.

Btw., would be nice to also integrate these VM counters into perf as well, 
as an instrumentation variant/option.

It could be done in an almost zero overhead fashion using jump-labels I 
think.

[ Just in case someone is bored to death and is looking for an interesting 
  side project ;-) ]

Thanks,

	Ingo

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-22 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-16 23:44 [RESEND][PATCH] mm: vmstats: tlb flush counters Dave Hansen
2013-07-17  7:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-18 20:51   ` Andrew Morton
2013-07-19  8:28     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-07-19 15:51       ` Dave Hansen
2013-07-19 11:38 ` Raghavendra KT
2013-07-19 15:20   ` Dave Hansen
2013-07-20 13:09     ` Raghavendra K T
2013-07-22 10:06     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2013-07-22 16:59       ` Dave Hansen
2013-07-23  8:17         ` Ingo Molnar

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