Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: numa: Do not clear PTEs or PMDs for NUMA hinting faults

2015-03-05 Thread Dave Chinner
On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 11:54:52PM +, Mel Gorman wrote: > Dave Chinner reported the following on https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/1/226 > >Across the board the 4.0-rc1 numbers are much slower, and the >degradation is far worse when using the large memory footprint >configs. Perf points

Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: numa: Do not clear PTEs or PMDs for NUMA hinting faults

2015-03-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Mel Gorman wrote: > if (!prot_numa || !pmd_protnone(*pmd)) { > - entry = pmdp_get_and_clear_notify(mm, addr, pmd); > - entry = pmd_modify(entry, newprot); > + /* > +

[PATCH 2/2] mm: numa: Do not clear PTEs or PMDs for NUMA hinting faults

2015-03-05 Thread Mel Gorman
Dave Chinner reported the following on https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/1/226 Across the board the 4.0-rc1 numbers are much slower, and the degradation is far worse when using the large memory footprint configs. Perf points straight at the cause - this is from 4.0-rc1 on the "-o bhash=1010