From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: clameter@sgi.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org, andi@firstfloor.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: larger default page sizes...
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:21:43 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080326.162143.244048620.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803261052550.29859@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:56:17 -0700 (PDT)
> One should emphasize that this test was a kernel compile which is not
> a load that gains much from larger pages.
Actually, ever since gcc went to a garbage collecting allocator, I've
found it to be a TLB thrasher.
It will repeatedly randomly walk over a GC pool of at least 8MB in
size, which to fit fully in the TLB with 4K pages reaquires a TLB with
2048 entries assuming gcc touches no other data which is of course a
false assumption.
For some compiles this GC pool is more than 100MB in size.
GCC does not fit into any modern TLB using it's base page size.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-26 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-21 6:17 [00/14] Virtual Compound Page Support V3 Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 6:17 ` [01/14] vcompound: Return page array on vunmap Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 6:17 ` [02/14] vcompound: pageflags: Add PageVcompound() Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 6:17 ` [03/14] vmallocinfo: Support display of vcompound for a virtual compound page Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 7:55 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-21 17:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 6:17 ` [04/14] vcompound: Core piece Christoph Lameter
2008-03-22 12:10 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-03-24 18:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 6:17 ` [05/14] vcompound: Debugging aid Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 6:17 ` [06/14] vcompound: Virtual fallback for sparsemem Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 6:17 ` [07/14] vcompound: bit waitqueue support Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 6:17 ` [08/14] vcompound: Fallback for zone wait table Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 6:17 ` [09/14] vcompound: crypto: Fallback for temporary order 2 allocation Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 6:17 ` [10/14] vcompound: slub: Use for buffer to correlate allocation addresses Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 6:17 ` [11/14] vcompound: Fallbacks for order 1 stack allocations on IA64 and x86 Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 7:25 ` David Miller
2008-03-21 8:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-21 17:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 19:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-21 19:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 17:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 21:57 ` David Miller
2008-03-24 18:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-24 20:37 ` larger default page sizes David Miller
2008-03-24 21:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-24 21:43 ` David Miller
2008-03-25 17:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-25 23:22 ` David Miller
2008-03-25 23:41 ` Peter Chubb
2008-03-25 23:49 ` David Miller
2008-03-26 0:25 ` Peter Chubb
2008-03-26 0:31 ` David Miller
2008-03-26 0:34 ` David Mosberger-Tang
2008-03-26 0:39 ` David Miller
2008-03-26 0:57 ` Peter Chubb
2008-03-26 4:16 ` John Marvin
2008-03-26 4:36 ` David Miller
2008-03-24 21:25 ` Luck, Tony
2008-03-24 21:46 ` David Miller
2008-03-25 3:29 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-03-25 4:15 ` David Miller
2008-03-25 11:50 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-03-25 23:32 ` David Miller
2008-03-25 23:49 ` Luck, Tony
2008-03-26 0:16 ` David Miller
2008-03-26 15:54 ` Nish Aravamudan
2008-03-26 17:05 ` Luck, Tony
2008-03-26 18:54 ` Mel Gorman
2008-03-25 12:05 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-25 21:27 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-03-26 5:24 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-03-26 15:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-27 1:08 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-03-26 17:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-26 23:21 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-03-27 3:00 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-03-25 18:27 ` Dave Hansen
2008-03-24 21:13 ` [11/14] vcompound: Fallbacks for order 1 stack allocations on IA64 and x86 Luck, Tony
2008-03-25 17:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-25 19:09 ` Luck, Tony
2008-03-25 19:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 22:30 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-24 19:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-25 7:51 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-25 17:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-25 18:07 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-21 6:17 ` [12/14] vcompound: Avoid vmalloc in e1000 driver Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 17:27 ` Kok, Auke
2008-03-21 6:17 ` [13/14] vcompound: Use vcompound for swap_map Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 21:25 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-21 21:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-24 19:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-25 7:52 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-25 17:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-25 17:55 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-25 17:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 6:17 ` [14/14] vcompound: Avoid vmalloc for ehash_locks Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 7:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-21 7:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 7:31 ` David Miller
2008-03-21 7:42 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-21 7:31 ` David Miller
2008-03-21 17:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-22 18:40 ` [00/14] Virtual Compound Page Support V3 Arjan van de Ven
2008-03-24 18:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-24 19:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-25 23:47 larger default page sizes J.C. Pizarro
2008-03-26 15:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
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