From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>, Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.43-mm2] New shared page table patch
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 23:18:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2458064740.1035069495@[10.10.2.3]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1021019151523.29078E-200000@gatekeeper.tmr.com>
>> For reference, one of the tests was TPC-H. My code reduced the number of
>> allocated pte_chains from 5 million to 50 thousand.
>
> Don't tease, what did that do for performance? I see that someone has
> already posted a possible problem, and the code would pass for complex for
> most people, so is the gain worth the pain?
In many cases, this will stop the box from falling over flat on it's
face due to ZONE_NORMAL exhaustion (from pte-chains), or even total
RAM exhaustion (from PTEs). Thus the performance gain is infinite ;-)
M.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-20 6:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-18 23:06 Dave McCracken
2002-10-19 1:32 ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-10-19 19:17 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-10-19 19:36 ` Dave McCracken
2002-10-20 4:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-10-20 6:18 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2002-10-21 14:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-10-21 15:21 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-22 3:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-10-22 5:55 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-22 16:09 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-22 16:14 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-22 18:06 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-10-22 19:02 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-22 19:21 ` Dave McCracken
2002-10-24 10:50 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-10-24 14:22 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-24 14:38 ` Dave McCracken
2002-10-24 14:51 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-25 17:31 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-10-24 10:42 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-10-22 17:19 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-10-22 17:36 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-22 17:45 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-10-22 17:56 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22 18:01 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-10-22 19:03 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-10-22 20:23 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-22 21:33 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2002-10-22 18:22 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-22 18:47 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2002-10-22 18:55 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-10-22 19:27 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2002-10-22 19:29 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-10-22 19:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-10-22 14:26 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-22 17:09 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22 17:15 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-22 18:36 ` Dave McCracken
2002-10-22 18:49 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22 19:06 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2002-10-22 19:29 ` Dave McCracken
2002-10-22 19:11 ` Ulrich Drepper
2002-10-22 19:29 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2002-10-22 18:45 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2002-10-22 17:54 ` Bill Davidsen
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