Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Multi-sized THP performance benchmarks and analysis on ARM64

[Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 11:16 AM Jonathan Cameron
<Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:47:04 -0700
> Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > We just made some progress regarding multi-sized THP benchmarking on
> > the ARM64 platform. So I'd like to propose the topic "Multi-sized THP
> > performance benchmark on ARM64" for MM track.
> >
> > We ran a series of benchmarks on Ampere Altra platform using some
> > popular workloads in the cloud: In-memory databases, kernel
> > compilation, etc, using different sized huge pages: 2M, 128K, 64K and
> > others.
> >
> > This topic will cover:
> >   - The benchmark data of some popular workloads in Cloud
> >   - The performance analysis (where the gain came from, the
> > contributing factors, etc)
> >   - Th recommended page sizes which can achieve overall decent performance gain
> >
>
> Sounds like useful data, but is it a suitable topic for LSF-MM?
> What open questions etc is it raising?
>
> I'm very interested in seeing your results, but maybe this isn't the best path
> for them.

Thanks for showing interest. Hopefully the benchmark data also can
help us for the direction of further optimizations, and I hope this is
also a part of the session.

>
> Jonathan