From: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
Val Henson <val.henson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/14] remap_file_pages protection support
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 02:26:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200605030226.28047.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1146565266.32045.29.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 12:21, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > This will be useful since the VMA lookup at fault time can be a
> > bottleneck for some programs (I've received a report about this from
> > Ulrich Drepper and I've been told that also Val Henson from Intel is
> > interested about this).
> I've not seen much of this if any at all, the various caches that are in
> place for these lookups seem to function quite well; what we did see was
> glibc's malloc implementation being mistuned resulting in far too many
> mmaps than needed (which in turn leads to far too much page zeroing
> which is the really expensive part. It's not the vma lookup that is
> expensive, it's the page zeroing)
Even to this email, I hope Ulrich will answer.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-03 0:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-30 17:29 blaisorblade
2006-04-30 17:29 ` [patch 01/14] Fix comment about remap_file_pages blaisorblade
2006-04-30 17:29 ` [patch 02/14] remap_file_pages protection support: add needed macros blaisorblade
2006-04-30 17:29 ` [patch 03/14] remap_file_pages protection support: handle MANYPROTS VMAs blaisorblade
2006-04-30 17:29 ` [patch 04/14] remap_file_pages protection support: disallow mprotect() on manyprots mappings blaisorblade
2006-04-30 17:29 ` [patch 05/14] remap_file_pages protection support: cleanup syscall checks blaisorblade
2006-04-30 17:29 ` [patch 06/14] remap_file_pages protection support: enhance syscall interface blaisorblade
2006-04-30 17:30 ` [patch 07/14] remap_file_pages protection support: support private vma for MAP_POPULATE blaisorblade
2006-04-30 17:30 ` [patch 08/14] remap_file_pages protection support: use FAULT_SIGSEGV for protection checking blaisorblade
2006-04-30 17:30 ` [patch 09/14] remap_file_pages protection support: fix race condition with concurrent faults on same address space blaisorblade
2006-04-30 17:30 ` [patch 10/14] remap_file_pages protection support: fix get_user_pages() on VM_MANYPROTS vmas blaisorblade
2006-04-30 17:30 ` [patch 11/14] remap_file_pages protection support: pte_present should not trigger on PTE_FILE PROTNONE ptes blaisorblade
2006-05-02 3:53 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-03 1:29 ` Blaisorblade
2006-05-06 10:03 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-07 17:50 ` Blaisorblade
2006-04-30 17:30 ` [patch 12/14] remap_file_pages protection support: also set VM_NONLINEAR on nonuniform VMAs blaisorblade
2006-04-30 17:30 ` [patch 13/14] remap_file_pages protection support: uml, i386, x64 bits blaisorblade
2006-04-30 17:30 ` [patch 14/14] remap_file_pages protection support: adapt to uml peculiarities blaisorblade
2006-05-02 3:45 ` [patch 00/14] remap_file_pages protection support Nick Piggin
2006-05-02 3:56 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-02 11:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-05-02 12:19 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-02 17:16 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2006-05-03 1:20 ` Blaisorblade
2006-05-03 14:35 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2006-05-03 0:25 ` Blaisorblade
2006-05-06 16:05 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-05-07 4:22 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-13 14:13 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-13 18:19 ` Valerie Henson
2006-05-13 22:54 ` Valerie Henson
2006-05-16 13:30 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-16 13:51 ` Andreas Mohr
2006-05-16 16:31 ` Valerie Henson
2006-05-16 16:47 ` Andreas Mohr
2006-05-17 3:25 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-17 6:10 ` Blaisorblade
2006-05-16 16:33 ` Valerie Henson
2006-05-03 0:44 ` Blaisorblade
2006-05-06 9:06 ` Nick Piggin
2006-05-06 15:26 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-05-02 10:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-02 23:46 ` Valerie Henson
2006-05-03 0:26 ` Blaisorblade [this message]
2006-05-03 1:44 ` Ulrich Drepper
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