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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: shared pagetable benchmarking
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 03:13:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021220111336.GH25000@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E02FACD.5B300794@digeo.com>

On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 03:11:09AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Did a bit of timing and profiling.  It's a uniprocessor
> kernel, 7G, PAE.
> The workload is application and removal of ~80 patches using
> my patch scripts.  Tons and tons of forks from bash.
> 2.5 ends up being 13% slower than 2.4, after disabling highpte
> to make it fair.  3%-odd of this is HZ=1000.  So say 10%.
> Pagetable sharing actually slowed this test down by several
> percent overall.  Which is unfortunate, because the main
> thing which Linus likes about shared pagetables is that it
> "speeds up forks".
> Is there anything we can do to fix all of this up a bit?

For testing purposes, try removing the opportunistic mmap()-time
sharing.


Bill
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-20 11:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-20 11:11 Andrew Morton
2002-12-20 11:13 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-12-20 16:30 ` Dave McCracken
2002-12-20 19:59   ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-23 16:15     ` Dave McCracken
2002-12-23 23:54       ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-27  9:39       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-12-27  9:58         ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-27 15:59           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-12-27 20:02             ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-27 20:16               ` Dave McCracken
2002-12-27 20:18                 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-27 20:45                   ` Dave McCracken
2002-12-27 20:50                     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-27 23:56                       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-12-28  0:45                       ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-12-28  2:34                         ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-28  3:10                           ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-28  6:58                             ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-28  7:39                               ` Ingo Molnar
2002-12-28  7:47                               ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-28 23:28                                 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-28  3:19                           ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-12-23 18:19 ` Dave McCracken

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