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* [RFC PATCH 00/17] THP support for PPC64
@ 2013-02-18 10:27 Aneesh Kumar K.V
  2013-02-18 10:27 ` [RFC PATCH 01/17] powerpc: Don't hard code the size of pte page Aneesh Kumar K.V
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From: Aneesh Kumar K.V @ 2013-02-18 10:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: benh, paulus; +Cc: linuxppc-dev

Hi,

This is an early RFC version adding transparent huge page support for PPC64.
I am sharing the changes, so that we can have early review on the approach
taken. The TODOs include

*) Compile issues with different config option
*) HugeTLBfs is disabled now (mostly compile issues)
*) PPC32 and other sub architecture details need to be worked out.
*) 4K page size details need to be worked out
*) Closer review of PMD* flags.

Some numbers:

The latency measurements code from Anton  found at
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/latency2001.c

THP disabled 64K page size
------------------------
[root@llmp24l02 ~]# ./latency2001 8G
 8589934592    731.73 cycles    205.77 ns
[root@llmp24l02 ~]# ./latency2001 8G
 8589934592    743.39 cycles    209.05 ns
[root@llmp24l02 ~]#

THP disabled large page via hugetlbfs
-------------------------------------
[root@llmp24l02 ~]# ./latency2001  -l 8G
 8589934592    416.09 cycles    117.01 ns
[root@llmp24l02 ~]# ./latency2001  -l 8G
 8589934592    415.74 cycles    116.91 ns

THP enabled 64K page size.
----------------
[root@llmp24l02 ~]# ./latency2001 8G
 8589934592    405.07 cycles    113.91 ns
[root@llmp24l02 ~]# ./latency2001 8G
 8589934592    411.82 cycles    115.81 ns
[root@llmp24l02 ~]#


We are close to hugetlbfs in latency and we can achieve this with zero
config/page reservation. Most of the allocations above are fault allocated.
I haven't really measured the collapse alloc impact.

Another test that does 50000000 random access over 1GB area goes from
2.65 seconds to 1.07 seconds with this patchset.

Thanks,
-aneesh

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2013-02-18 10:27 [RFC PATCH 00/17] THP support for PPC64 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-18 10:27 ` [RFC PATCH 01/17] powerpc: Don't hard code the size of pte page Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-18 10:28 ` [RFC PATCH 02/17] arch/powerpc: Reduce the PTE_INDEX_SIZE Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-18 10:28 ` [RFC PATCH 03/17] powerpc: Reduce PTE table memory wastage Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-18 10:28 ` [RFC PATCH 04/17] mm/THP: Add pmd args to pgtable deposit and withdraw APIs Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-18 10:28 ` [RFC PATCH 05/17] powerpc: Add size argument to pgtable_cache_add Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-18 10:28 ` [RFC PATCH 06/17] powerpc/mm: Decode the pte-lp-encoding bits correctly Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-18 10:28 ` [RFC PATCH 07/17] powerpc: Update tlbie/tlbiel as per ISA doc Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-18 10:28 ` [RFC PATCH 08/17] powerpc: print both base and actual page size on hash failure Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-18 10:28 ` [RFC PATCH 09/17] powerpc/mm: Use encode avpn where we need only avpn values Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-18 10:28 ` [RFC PATCH 10/17] powerpc/mm: Fix hpte_decode to use the correct decoding for page sizes Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-18 10:28 ` [RFC PATCH 11/17] powerpc: Print page size info during boot Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-18 10:28 ` [RFC PATCH 12/17] powerpc/THP: Implement transparent huge pages for ppc64 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-18 10:28 ` [RFC PATCH 13/17] powerpc/THP: Add code to handle HPTE faults for large pages Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-18 10:28 ` [RFC PATCH 14/17] powerpc: support for zerout withdraw Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-18 10:28 ` [RFC PATCH 15/17] powerpc: hypervisor require few WIMG bit set Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-18 10:28 ` [RFC PATCH 16/17] powerpc: get_user_pages_fast changes Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-02-18 10:28 ` [RFC PATCH 17/17] powerpc: Save DAR and DSISR in pt_regs on MCE Aneesh Kumar K.V

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