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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	"hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk" <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [MM] Make mm counters per cpu instead of atomic
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:17:40 -0600 (CST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0911240914190.14045@router.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1259049753.29789.49.camel@localhost>

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:

> > True.... We need to find some alternative to per cpu data to scale mmap
> > sem then.
> I ran lots of benchmarks such like specjbb2005/hackbench/tbench/dbench/iozone
> /sysbench_oltp(mysql)/aim7 against percpu tree(based on 2.6.32-rc7) on a 4*8*2 logical
> cpu machine, and didn't find big result difference between with your patch and without
> your patch.

This affects loads that heavily use mmap_sem. You wont find too many
issues in tests that do not run processes with a large thread count and
cause lots of faults or uses of get_user_pages(). The tests you list are
not of that nature.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-24 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-04 19:14 Christoph Lameter
2009-11-04 19:17 ` [MM] Remove rss batching from copy_page_range() Christoph Lameter
2009-11-04 21:02   ` Andi Kleen
2009-11-04 22:02     ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-05  8:27       ` Andi Kleen
2009-11-04 21:01 ` [MM] Make mm counters per cpu instead of atomic Andi Kleen
2009-11-04 23:49 ` Dave Jones
2009-11-05 15:04   ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-05 15:36     ` [MM] Make mm counters per cpu instead of atomic V2 Christoph Lameter
2009-11-06  1:11       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-11-06  3:23         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-11-06 17:32           ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-06 19:03             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-11-06 19:13               ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-06 19:20                 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-11-06 19:47                   ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-10 22:44         ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-10 23:20           ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-06  4:08       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-11-06  4:15       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-11-05  1:16 ` [MM] Make mm counters per cpu instead of atomic KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-11-05 15:10   ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-05 23:42     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-11-17  6:48 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-11-17  7:31   ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-11-17  9:34     ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-11-17 17:25       ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-19  0:48         ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-11-23  8:51         ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-11-23 14:31           ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-24  8:02             ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-11-24 15:17               ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2009-11-25  1:23                 ` Zhang, Yanmin

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