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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: "Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)" <elliott@hpe.com>
Cc: Cannon Matthews <cannonmatthews@google.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>,
	Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>, Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
	David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>,
	Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>,
	Alain Trinh <nullptr@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] RFC: clear 1G pages with streaming stores on x86
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 07:38:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180725143850.GA2886@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DF4PR8401MB11806B9D2A7FE04B1F5ECBF8AB540@DF4PR8401MB1180.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 05:02:46AM +0000, Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory) wrote:
> Even with that, one CPU core won't saturate the memory bus; multiple
> CPU cores (preferably on the same NUMA node as the memory) need to
> share the work.

It's probably OK to not saturate the memory bus; it'd be nice if other
cores were allowed to get work done.  If your workload is single-threaded,
you're right, of course, but who has a single-threaded workload these
days?!

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-25 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-24 20:46 [PATCH] RFC: clear 1G pages with streaming stores on x86 Cannon Matthews
2018-07-24 20:53 ` Andrew Morton
2018-07-25  2:50   ` Cannon Matthews
2018-07-24 21:09 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-07-25  2:37   ` [PATCH v2] " Cannon Matthews
2018-07-25  5:02     ` Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
2018-07-25 14:38       ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2018-07-25 17:30       ` Cannon Matthews
2018-07-25 18:23         ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-07-25 18:48           ` Cannon Matthews
2018-07-25 12:57     ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-25 17:55       ` Cannon Matthews
2018-07-26 13:19         ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-27  0:05         ` Huang, Ying
2018-07-30 16:29     ` Borislav Petkov
2018-07-31  0:28       ` Cannon Matthews
2018-07-31  0:45       ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-07-25  2:46   ` [PATCH] " Cannon Matthews

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