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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
	Alex Shi <alex.shu@intel.com>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
	Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC 0/6] Avoid cache trashing on clearing huge/gigantic page
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 08:18:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5023D4CE.7080704@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1342788622-10290-1-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

On 07/20/2012 05:50 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
>
> Clearing a 2MB huge page will typically blow away several levels of CPU
> caches.  To avoid this only cache clear the 4K area around the fault
> address and use a cache avoiding clears for the rest of the 2MB area.
>
> It would be nice to test the patchset with more workloads. Especially if
> you see performance regression with THP.
>
> Any feedback is appreciated.
>
> Andi Kleen (6):
>    THP: Use real address for NUMA policy
>    mm: make clear_huge_page tolerate non aligned address
>    THP: Pass real, not rounded, address to clear_huge_page
>    x86: Add clear_page_nocache
>    mm: make clear_huge_page cache clear only around the fault address
>    x86: switch the 64bit uncached page clear to SSE/AVX v2
>

This is a mix of x86-specific and generic changes... does anyone mind if 
I put this into the -tip tree?

	-hpa


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-09 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-20 12:50 [PATCH, RFC 0/6] Avoid cache trashing on clearing huge/gigantic page Kirill A. Shutemov
2012-07-20 12:50 ` [PATCH, RFC 1/6] THP: Use real address for NUMA policy Kirill A. Shutemov
2012-07-20 12:50 ` [PATCH, RFC 2/6] mm: make clear_huge_page tolerate non aligned address Kirill A. Shutemov
2012-07-20 12:50 ` [PATCH, RFC 3/6] THP: Pass real, not rounded, address to clear_huge_page Kirill A. Shutemov
2012-07-20 12:50 ` [PATCH, RFC 4/6] x86: Add clear_page_nocache Kirill A. Shutemov
2012-07-20 12:50 ` [PATCH, RFC 5/6] mm: make clear_huge_page cache clear only around the fault address Kirill A. Shutemov
2012-07-20 12:50 ` [PATCH, RFC 6/6] x86: switch the 64bit uncached page clear to SSE/AVX v2 Kirill A. Shutemov
2012-07-23 23:30 ` [PATCH, RFC 0/6] Avoid cache trashing on clearing huge/gigantic page Andrew Morton
2012-07-24 14:09   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2012-07-25 18:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-25 19:28   ` Andi Kleen
2012-07-25 19:38     ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-09 15:18 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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