From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx176.postini.com [74.125.245.176]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D2CA6B0031 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 09:02:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from /spool/local by e28smtp03.in.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 18:25:44 +0530 Received: from d28relay01.in.ibm.com (d28relay01.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.58]) by d28dlp01.in.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BA9AE0054 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 18:32:22 +0530 (IST) Received: from d28av04.in.ibm.com (d28av04.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.66]) by d28relay01.in.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id r6KD3CxL20775030 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 18:33:13 +0530 Received: from d28av04.in.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d28av04.in.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id r6KD2Nep005577 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2013 23:02:24 +1000 Message-ID: <51EA8C23.5070408@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 18:39:55 +0530 From: Raghavendra K T MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [RESEND][PATCH] mm: vmstats: tlb flush counters References: <20130716234438.C792C316@viggo.jf.intel.com> <51E95932.5030902@sr71.net> In-Reply-To: <51E95932.5030902@sr71.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Dave Hansen Cc: Raghavendra KT , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org On 07/19/2013 08:50 PM, Dave Hansen 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. > Dave, ebizzy is the one. and dbench to some small extent. [root@codeblue ~]# cat /proc/vmstat |grep nr_tlb ; /root/data/script/do_ebizzy.sh; cat /proc/vmstat |grep nr_tlb nr_tlb_remote_flush 721 nr_tlb_remote_flush_received 923 nr_tlb_local_flush_all 13992 nr_tlb_local_flush_one 0 nr_tlb_local_flush_one_kernel 0 7482 records/s real 120.00 s user 86.69 s sys 3746.57 s nr_tlb_remote_flush 912896 nr_tlb_remote_flush_received 28261974 nr_tlb_local_flush_all 926272 nr_tlb_local_flush_one 0 nr_tlb_local_flush_one_kernel 0 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org