From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Dirty/Access bits vs. page content
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:46:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFyO+-GehPiOAPy7-N0ejFrsNupWHG+j5hAs=R=RuPQtDg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1398393700.8437.22.camel@pasglop>
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 11:37 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>>
>> The flip side is that we do a lot more IPIs for large invalidates,
>> since we drop the PTL on every page table page.
>
> Oh I missed that your patch was smart enough to only do that in the
> presence of non-anonymous dirty pages. That should take care of the
> common case of short lived programs, those should still fit in a
> single big batch.
Right. It only causes extra TLB shootdowns for dirty shared mappings.
Which, let's face it, don't actually ever happen. Using mmap to write
to files is actually very rare, because it really sucks in just about
all possible ways. There are almost no loads where it's not better to
just use a "write()" system call instead.
So the dirty shared mapping case _exists_, but it's pretty darn
unusual. The case where you have lots of mmap/munmap activity is even
less unusual. I suspect the most common case is for stress-testing the
VM, because nobody sane does it for an actual real load.
Linus
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2014-04-22 0:31 ` Dirty/Access bits vs. page content Linus Torvalds
2014-04-22 0:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-22 5:15 ` Tony Luck
2014-04-22 14:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-22 7:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-22 7:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-22 21:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-22 21:46 ` Dave Hansen
2014-04-22 22:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-22 22:41 ` Dave Hansen
2014-04-23 2:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-23 3:08 ` Hugh Dickins
2014-04-23 4:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-23 6:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-04-23 18:41 ` Jan Kara
2014-04-23 19:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-24 6:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-24 18:40 ` Hugh Dickins
2014-04-24 19:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-24 20:02 ` Hugh Dickins
2014-04-24 23:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-25 1:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-04-25 2:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-04-25 2:46 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2014-04-25 2:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-04-25 3:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-25 12:01 ` Hugh Dickins
2014-04-25 13:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-25 19:41 ` Hugh Dickins
2014-04-26 18:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-27 7:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-27 12:20 ` Hugh Dickins
2014-04-27 19:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-27 19:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-27 20:09 ` Hugh Dickins
2014-04-28 9:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-28 10:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-27 16:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-27 23:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-04-25 16:54 ` Dave Hansen
2014-04-25 18:41 ` Hugh Dickins
2014-04-25 22:00 ` Dave Hansen
2014-04-26 3:11 ` Hugh Dickins
2014-04-26 3:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-25 17:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-25 19:13 ` Hugh Dickins
2014-04-25 16:30 ` Dave Hansen
2014-04-23 20:11 ` Hugh Dickins
2014-04-24 8:49 ` Jan Kara
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