From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: VM tuning through fault trace gathering [with actual code] References: From: John Fremlin Date: 26 Jun 2001 13:54:30 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Marcelo Tosatti's message of "Mon, 25 Jun 2001 21:53:33 -0300 (BRT)") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Marcelo Tosatti writes: > On 25 Jun 2001, John Fremlin wrote: > > > > > Last year I had the idea of tracing the memory accesses of the system > > to improve the VM - the traces could be used to test algorithms in > > userspace. The difficulty is of course making all memory accesses > > fault without destroying system performance. [...] > Linux Trace Toolkit (http://www.opersys.com/LTT) does that. I dld the ltt-usenix paper and skim read it. It didn't seem to talk about page faults much. Where should I look? -- http://ape.n3.net -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/