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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Sparsemem Virtual Memmap V5
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 08:07:43 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707140803300.30485@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070714084931.GE1198@wotan.suse.de>

On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:

> Isn't it still possible that you could have TLB pressure that would
> result in lower performance? I wonder why the large page support for
> ia64 was shelved?

16M Large memmap support was shelved because 16M is too large a size for 
a vmemmap block. It results in the vmemmap overlapping multiple nodes.

The TLB pressure for the 16k support is the same since its the same 
algorithm. We are measuring discontig/vmemmap 16k against sparse/vmemmap 
16k here.

We would likely see a different if we would compare sparsemem vs. 
sparse/vmemmap. Then there may be a difference in TLB pressure. But 16k 
discontig/vmemmap is the current default on IA64.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-14 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-13 13:34 Andy Whitcroft
2007-07-13 13:35 ` [PATCH 1/7] sparsemem: clean up spelling error in comments Andy Whitcroft
2007-07-13 13:35 ` [PATCH 2/7] sparsemem: record when a section has a valid mem_map Andy Whitcroft
2007-07-13 14:24   ` [PATCH] Bah, hoisted by my own petard. Below is an updated version Andy Whitcroft
2007-07-13 13:36 ` [PATCH 3/7] Generic Virtual Memmap support for SPARSEMEM Andy Whitcroft
2007-07-13 14:51   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-07-13 22:42     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-13 23:12       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-07-13 23:17         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-13 23:25           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-07-14 15:20   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-14 16:06     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-14 16:33       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-23 19:36         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-30 14:39     ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-07-30 18:35       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-13 13:36 ` [PATCH 4/7] x86_64: SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 2M page size support Andy Whitcroft
2007-07-19 23:25   ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-13 13:37 ` [PATCH 5/7] IA64: SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP 16K " Andy Whitcroft
2007-07-13 13:37 ` [PATCH 6/7] SPARC64: SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP support Andy Whitcroft
2007-07-13 17:00   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-13 13:38 ` [PATCH 7/7] ppc64: " Andy Whitcroft
2007-07-13 17:04 ` [PATCH 0/7] Sparsemem Virtual Memmap V5 Christoph Lameter
2007-07-13 17:40   ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-13 18:23     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-14  8:57       ` Russell King
2007-07-14 15:10         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-14 17:16           ` Russell King
2007-07-13 20:08     ` Roman Zippel
2007-07-13 22:02     ` Luck, Tony
2007-07-13 22:21       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-13 22:37         ` Luck, Tony
2007-07-13 22:54           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-13 23:27             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-07-13 23:28               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-14  8:49         ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-14 15:07           ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2007-07-13 22:43     ` David Miller, Andrew Morton
2007-07-26  8:05 ` Paul Mundt

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