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From: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 18:18:06 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55E7132E.104@plexistor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55E70653.4090302@linux.intel.com>

On 09/02/2015 05:23 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
<>
> I'd be curious what the cost is in practice.  Do you have any actual
> numbers of the cost of doing it this way?
> 
> Even if the instruction is a "noop", I'd really expect the overhead to
> really add up for a tens-of-gigabytes mapping, no matter how much the
> CPU optimizes it.

What tens-of-gigabytes mapping? I have yet to encounter an application
that does that. Our tests show that usually the mmaps are small.

I can send you a micro benchmark results of an mmap vs direct-io random
write. Our code will jump over holes in the file BTW, but I'll ask to also
run it with falloc that will make all blocks allocated.

Give me a few days to collect this.

I guess one optimization we should do is jump over holes and zero-extents.
This will save the case of a mostly sparse very big file.

Thanks
Boaz

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-02 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-31 18:59 [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Ross Zwisler
2015-08-31 19:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-31 19:26   ` Ross Zwisler
2015-08-31 19:34     ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-31 23:38 ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-01  7:06   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-09-01 12:18     ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-09-02 19:04       ` Ross Zwisler
2015-09-02 20:17         ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-09-03  6:32         ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-09-03 16:44           ` Ross Zwisler
2015-09-01 22:21     ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-02  3:19       ` Ross Zwisler
2015-09-02  5:17         ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-02 10:27           ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-09-02 14:23             ` Dave Hansen
2015-09-02 15:18               ` Boaz Harrosh [this message]
2015-09-02 15:39                 ` Dave Hansen
2015-09-02 16:00                   ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-09-02 16:19                     ` Dave Hansen
2015-09-03  6:41                       ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-09-02 10:04         ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-09-01 10:08   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-09-01 11:27     ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-09-01 22:49     ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-02  9:13       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-09-02  9:37         ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-09-02  9:41           ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-09-02  9:47             ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-09-02 10:28               ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-09-03  0:57         ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-01 13:12 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-09-02 17:47   ` Ross Zwisler

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