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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
	torvalds@osdl.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Permit inode & dentry hash tables to be allocated > MAX_ORDER size
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:40:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1087226661.18615.1752.camel@nighthawk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <113620000.1087052452@[10.10.2.4]>

On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 08:00, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> >> Since vmalloc() maps the pages with small pagetable entries (unlike most
> >> of the rest of the kernel address space), do you think the interleaving
> >> will outweigh any negative TLB effects?  
> > 
> > I think so, yes (assuming you run the benchmark on all CPUs)
> 
> On the other hand, there's no reason we can't hack up a version of vmalloc
> to use large pages, and interleave only based on that. 

Think about ppc64 where the large page size is 16MB.  That might hurt
interleaving a bit if the structure is only 32MB.  It's better than
*everything* on node 0, but not by much.  

-- Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-15 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <263jX-5RZ-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <262nZ-56Z-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <263jX-5RZ-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-06-12  0:21     ` [PATCH] Permit inode & dentry hash tables to be allocated > MAX_ORDER size Andi Kleen
2004-06-12  6:00       ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-06-12  7:36       ` Dave Hansen
2004-06-12 13:11         ` Andi Kleen
2004-06-12 15:00           ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-06-15 16:40             ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2004-06-11 10:44 David Howells
2004-06-11 10:48 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-11 11:12   ` David Howells
2004-06-11 22:04     ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-11 23:03       ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-06-11 23:19         ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-11 23:18           ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-06-11 23:30             ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-12 12:45               ` Andy Whitcroft
2004-06-13 16:09           ` Linus Torvalds

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