On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:26:51AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > a) it has been demonstrated that this patch is superior to simply removing > the quicklists and
Not that clameter really needs my help, but I agree with his position on several fronts, and advocate accordingly, so here is where I'm at. >From prior experience, I believe I know how to extract positive results, and that's primarily by PTE caching because they're the most frequently zeroed pagetable nodes. The upper levels of pagetables will remain in the noise until the leaf level bottleneck is dealt with. PTE's need a custom tlb.h to deal with the TLB issues noted above; the asm-generic variant will not suffice. Results above the noise level need PTE caching. Sparse fault handling (esp. after execve() is done) is one place in particular where improvements should be most readily demonstrable, as only single cachelines on each allocated node should be touched. lmbench should have a fault handling latency test for this. On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:26:51AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > b) we understand why the below simple modification crashes i386. Full eager zeroing patches not dependent on quicklist code don't crash, so there is no latent use-after-free issue covered up by caching. I'll help out more on the i386 front as-needed. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
