From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Larry Bassel <larry.bassel@oracle.com>,
Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: question about page tables in DAX/FS/PMEM case
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 15:51:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6e4a5296-0ad0-ab1e-40a0-c1f69d11300a@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190221225827.GA2764@ubuette>
On 2/21/19 2:58 PM, Larry Bassel wrote:
> AFAIK there is no hardware benefit from sharing the page table
> directory within different page table. So the only benefit is the
> amount of memory we save.
The hardware benefit from schemes like this is that the CPU caches are
better utilized. If two processes share page tables, they don't share
TLB entries, but they *do* share the contents of the CPU's caches. That
will make TLB misses faster.
It probably doesn't matter *that* much in practice because the page
walker doing TLB fills does a pretty good job of hiding all the latency,
but it might matter in extreme cases.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-21 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-20 23:06 question about page tables in DAX/FS/PMEM case Larry Bassel
2019-02-21 20:41 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-02-21 22:58 ` Larry Bassel
2019-02-21 23:51 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2019-02-22 0:39 ` Jerome Glisse
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