From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Maybe a VM bug in 2.4.18-18 from RH 8.0?
Date: 07 Dec 2002 11:55:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1039258546.1702.2.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DF13A54.927C04C1@digeo.com>
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 01:01, Andrew Morton wrote:
> William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> >
> > ...
> > A 16KB or 64KB kernel allocation unit would then annihilate
>
> You want to be careful about this:
>
> CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
>
> Because instantiating a 16k page into user pagetables in
> one hit means that it must all be zeroed. With these large
> pagesizes that means that the application is likely to get
> 100% L1 misses against the new page, whereas it currently
> gets 100% hits.
If you really want you can cheat that 100% statistic into something much
lower by zeroing the page from back to front (based on the exact
faulting address even, because you know THAT one will get used) and/or
zeroing the second half while bypassing the cache. At least it's 50%
hits then ;)
Still not 100% and I still agree that the 8Kb number is much nicer for
16Kb L1 cache machines....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-07 10:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-06 0:13 Norman Gaywood
2002-12-06 1:00 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-06 1:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 1:34 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-06 1:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 2:15 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 2:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 2:41 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 5:25 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-06 5:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 6:14 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 6:55 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-06 7:14 ` GrandMasterLee
2002-12-06 7:25 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-06 7:34 ` GrandMasterLee
2002-12-06 7:51 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-06 11:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-12-06 16:19 ` GrandMasterLee
2002-12-06 14:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 15:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 23:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 23:45 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 23:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 6:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 22:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-06 23:21 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 23:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-07 0:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-07 0:01 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-07 0:21 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-07 0:30 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-07 2:19 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-07 1:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-07 1:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-07 2:31 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-07 2:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-07 0:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-07 0:35 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-07 0:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-07 10:55 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2002-12-06 10:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-12-06 14:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 15:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-12-06 22:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-12-07 18:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-12-06 1:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
[not found] <mailman.1039133948.27411.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-12-06 0:35 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-12-06 1:27 ` Norman Gaywood
2002-12-06 12:48 ` Rik van Riel
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