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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"hugh.dickins" <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/8] mm: handle_speculative_fault()
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 09:14:21 -0600 (CST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1001050907100.1074@router.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100105143046.73938ea2.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:

> I'd like to hear use cases of really heavy users, too. Christoph ?

A typical use case is a highly parallel memory intensive process
(simulations f.e.). Those are configured with the number of hardware
threads supported in mind to max out the performance of the underlying
hardware. On startup they start N threads and then each thread begins
initializing its memory (to get proper locality it has to be done this
way, you also want concurrency during this expensive operation).

The larger the number of threads the more contention on the
cachelines containing mmap_sem and the other cacheline containing the rss
counters. In extreme cases we had to wait 30mins to an hour in order for
the cacheline bouncing to complete (startup of a big HPC app on
IA64 with 1k threads).

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-05 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 121+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-04 18:24 [RFC][PATCH 0/8] Speculative pagefault -v3 Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-04 18:24 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/8] mm: Remove pte reference from fault path Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-04 18:24 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/8] mm: Speculative pagefault infrastructure Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-04 18:24 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/8] mm: Add vma sequence count Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-04 18:24 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/8] mm: RCU free vmas Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-05  2:43   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-05  8:28     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-05 16:05       ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-04 18:24 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/8] mm: Speculative pte_map_lock() Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-04 18:24 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/8] mm: handle_speculative_fault() Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-05  0:25   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-05  3:13     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05  8:17       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-05  8:57       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-05 15:34         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05 15:40           ` Al Viro
2010-01-05 16:10             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-06 15:41               ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-05  9:37       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-05 23:35         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05  4:29     ` Minchan Kim
2010-01-05  4:43       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-05  5:10         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05  5:30           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-05  7:39             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-05 15:26               ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05 16:14                 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05 17:25                   ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-05 17:47                     ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-05 18:00                       ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-05 17:55                     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05 18:13                       ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-05 18:25                         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05 18:46                           ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-05 18:56                             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05 19:15                               ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-05 19:28                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05 18:55                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-05 19:08                             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05 19:23                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-05 20:29                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-05 20:46                             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05 21:00                               ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05 23:29                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-06  0:22                 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-06  1:37                   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-06  2:52                     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-06  3:27                       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-06  3:56                         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-06  4:20                           ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-06  7:06                             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-06  7:49                               ` Minchan Kim
2010-01-06  9:39                               ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-07  1:00                                 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-08 16:53                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-08 17:22                               ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08 17:43                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-08 17:52                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08 18:33                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-08 18:46                                   ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-08 18:56                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-08 19:10                                       ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-08 19:11                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08 19:28                                         ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-08 19:39                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08 19:42                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08 21:36                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08 21:46                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-08 22:43                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08 22:43                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-09 14:47                               ` Ed Tomlinson
2010-01-10  5:27                                 ` Nitin Gupta
2010-01-05 15:14             ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2010-01-05  8:18           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-05  6:00         ` Minchan Kim
2010-01-05  4:48       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05  6:09         ` Minchan Kim
2010-01-05  6:09           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-05  6:24             ` Minchan Kim
2010-01-05  8:35           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-05 13:45   ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-05 14:15     ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-05 15:17     ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-06  3:22       ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-07 16:11         ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-07 16:19           ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-07 16:31             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-07 16:34             ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-07 16:36             ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-08  4:49               ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-08  5:00                 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08 15:51                 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-09 15:55                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-07 17:22             ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-07 17:36               ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-07 17:49                 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-07 18:00                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-07 18:15                     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-07 21:49                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-07 18:44                   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-07 19:20                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-07 20:06                       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-07 20:25                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-07 19:24                     ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-07 20:08                       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-07 20:13                         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-07 21:44                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-07 22:33                       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08  0:23                         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-08  0:25                           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-08  0:39                           ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08  0:41                             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-07 23:51                 ` Rik van Riel
2010-01-04 18:24 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/8] mm,x86: speculative pagefault support Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-04 18:24 ` [RFC][PATCH 8/8] mm: Optimize pte_map_lock() Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-04 21:41 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/8] Speculative pagefault -v3 Rik van Riel
2010-01-04 21:46   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-04 23:20     ` Rik van Riel
2010-01-04 21:59   ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-05  0:28     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-05  2:26 ` Minchan Kim

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