Re: [PATCH] MM: implement MADV_FREE lazy freeing of anonymous memory

Rik van Riel
2007-05-04T11:59:08Z

Nick Piggin wrote:
> Rik van Riel wrote:
>> With lazy freeing of anonymous pages through MADV_FREE, performance of
>> the MySQL sysbench workload more than doubles on my quad-core system.
>
> OK, I've run some tests on a 16 core Opteron system, both sysbench with
> MySQL 5.33 (set up as described in the freebsd vs linux page), and with
> ebizzy.
>
> What I found is that, on this system, MADV_FREE performance improvement
> was in the noise when you look at it on top of the MADV_DONTNEED glibc
> and down_read(mmap_sem) patch in sysbench.

Interesting, very different results from my system.

First, did you run with the properly TLB batched version of
the MADV_FREE patch? And did you make sure that MADV_FREE
takes the mmap_sem for reading? Without that, I did see
a similar thing to what you saw...

Secondly, I'll have to try some test runs one of the larger
systems in the lab.

Maybe the results from my quad core Intel system are not
typical; maybe the results from your 16 core Opteron are
not typical. Either way, I want to find out :)

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