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SubjectRe: [RFC v7 00/11] Support vrange for anonymous page
Hi Bart,

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 06:16:16PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tuesday 12 March 2013 08:38:24 Minchan Kim wrote:
> > First of all, let's define the term.
> > From now on, I'd like to call it as vrange(a.k.a volatile range)
> > for anonymous page. If you have a better name in mind, please suggest.
> >
> > This version is still *RFC* because it's just quick prototype so
> > it doesn't support THP/HugeTLB/KSM and even couldn't build on !x86.
> > Before further sorting out issues, I'd like to post current direction
> > and discuss it. Of course, I'd like to extend this discussion in
> > comming LSF/MM.
> >
> > In this version, I changed lots of thing, expecially removed vma-based
> > approach because it needs write-side lock for mmap_sem, which will drop
> > performance in mutli-threaded big SMP system, KOSAKI pointed out.
> > And vma-based approach is hard to meet requirement of new system call by
> > John Stultz's suggested semantic for consistent purged handling.
> > (http://linux-kernel.2935.n7.nabble.com/RFC-v5-0-8-Support-volatile-for-anonymous-range-tt575773.html#none)
> >
> > I tested this patchset with modified jemalloc allocator which was
> > leaded by Jason Evans(jemalloc author) who was interest in this feature
> > and was happy to port his allocator to use new system call.
> > Super Thanks Jason!
> >
> > The benchmark for test is ebizzy. It have been used for testing the
> > allocator performance so it's good for me. Again, thanks for recommending
> > the benchmark, Jason.
> > (http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/ebizzy.html)
> >
> > The result is good on my machine (12 CPU, 1.2GHz, DRAM 2G)
> >
> > ebizzy -S 20
> >
> > jemalloc-vanilla: 52389 records/sec
> > jemalloc-vrange: 203414 records/sec
> >
> > ebizzy -S 20 with background memory pressure
> >
> > jemalloc-vanilla: 40746 records/sec
> > jemalloc-vrange: 174910 records/sec
>
> Could you please make the modified jemalloc/ebizzy available somewhere so
> there is a easy way to test your patchset?

I will try it in next spin.
Thanks for your interest!

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim


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