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Re: [RFC v4 00/20] Speculative page faults

From Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC v4 00/20] Speculative page faults
Date 2017-06-13 12:00 +0200
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On 09/06/2017 18:35, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 09-06-17 17:25:51, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> [...]
>> Thanks Michal for your feedback.
>>
>> I mostly focused on this database workload since this is the one where
>> we hit the mmap_sem bottleneck when running on big node. On my usual
>> victim node, I checked for basic usage like kernel build time, but I
>> agree that's clearly not enough.
>>
>> I try to find details about the 'kbench' you mentioned, but I didn't get
>> any valid entry.
>> Would you please point me on this or any other bench tool you think will
>> be useful here ?
> 
> Sorry I meant kernbech (aka parallel kernel build). Other highly threaded
> workloads doing a lot of page faults and address space modification
> would be good to see as well. I wish I could give you much more
> comprehensive list but I am not very good at benchmarks.
> 

Thanks Michal, I found kernbench 0.5, I will give it a try.

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[RFC v4 00/20] Speculative page faults Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-06-09 16:30 +0200
  [RFC v4 15/20] mm/spf: protect mremap() against speculative pf Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-06-09 16:30 +0200
  [RFC v4 06/20] mm: Provide speculative fault infrastructure Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-06-09 16:30 +0200
  Re: [RFC v4 00/20] Speculative page faults Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-06-09 17:10 +0200
    Re: [RFC v4 00/20] Speculative page faults Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-06-09 17:30 +0200
      Re: [RFC v4 00/20] Speculative page faults Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-06-09 18:40 +0200
        Re: [RFC v4 00/20] Speculative page faults Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> - 2017-06-09 19:10 +0200
          Re: [RFC v4 00/20] Speculative page faults Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-06-13 12:30 +0200
        Re: [RFC v4 00/20] Speculative page faults Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-06-13 12:00 +0200
  Re: [RFC v4 00/20] Speculative page faults "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-06-09 21:00 +0200
  Re: [RFC v4 00/20] Speculative page faults Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2017-06-12 12:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC v4 00/20] Speculative page faults Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-06-13 12:30 +0200

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