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Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync

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On 09/02/2015 03:27 AM, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> > Yet you're ignoring the fact that flushing the entire range of the
>> > relevant VMAs may not be very efficient. It may be a very
>> > large mapping with only a few pages that need flushing from the
>> > cache, but you still iterate the mappings flushing GB ranges from
>> > the cache at a time.
>> > 
> So actually you are wrong about this. We have a working system and as part
> of our testing rig we do performance measurements, constantly. Our random
> mmap 4k writes test preforms very well and is in par with the random-direct-write
> implementation even though on every unmap, we do a VMA->start/end cl_flushing.
> 
> The cl_flush operation is a no-op if the cacheline is not dirty and is a
> memory bus storm with all the CLs that are dirty. So the only cost
> is the iteration of vma->start-to-vma->end i+=64

I'd be curious what the cost is in practice.  Do you have any actual
numbers of the cost of doing it this way?

Even if the instruction is a "noop", I'd really expect the overhead to
really add up for a tens-of-gigabytes mapping, no matter how much the
CPU optimizes it.
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[PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2015-08-31 21:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2015-08-31 21:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2015-08-31 21:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2015-08-31 21:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2015-09-01 01:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2015-09-01 09:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> - 2015-09-01 14:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2015-09-02 21:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2015-09-02 22:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> - 2015-09-03 08:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2015-09-03 18:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2015-09-02 00:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2015-09-02 05:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2015-09-02 07:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> - 2015-09-02 12:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2015-09-02 16:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> - 2015-09-02 17:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2015-09-02 17:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> - 2015-09-02 18:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> - 2015-09-02 18:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> - 2015-09-03 08:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> - 2015-09-02 12:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2015-09-01 12:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> - 2015-09-01 13:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2015-09-02 00:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2015-09-02 11:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> - 2015-09-02 11:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> - 2015-09-02 11:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2015-09-02 11:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> - 2015-09-02 12:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2015-09-03 03:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> - 2015-09-01 15:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2015-09-02 19:50 +0200

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