Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:55:38 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: page fault scalability patch V12 [0/7]: Overview and performance tests |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > > Changes from V11->V12 of this patch: > > - dump sloppy_rss in favor of list_rss (Linus' proposal) > > - keep up against current Linus tree (patch is based on 2.6.10-rc2-bk14) > > > > This is a series of patches that increases the scalability of > > the page fault handler for SMP. Here are some performance results > > on a machine with 512 processors allocating 32 GB with an increasing > > number of threads (that are assigned a processor each). > > Ok, consider me convinced. I don't want to apply this before I get 2.6.10 > out the door, but I'm happy with it.
There were concerns about some architectures relying upon page_table_lock for exclusivity within their own pte handling functions. Have they all been resolved?
> I assume Andrew has already picked up the previous version.
Nope. It has major clashes with the 4-level-pagetable work. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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