On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:35:16 -0800 Ning Qu <quning@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sorry about my fault about the experiments, here is the real one. > > Btw, apparently, there are still some questions about the results and > I will sync with Kirill about his test command line. > > Below is just some simple experiment numbers from this patch, let me know if > you would like more: > > Tested on Xeon machine with 64GiB of RAM, using the current default fault > order 4. > > Sequential access 8GiB file > Baseline with-patch > 1 thread > minor fault 8,389,052 4,456,530 > time, seconds 9.55 8.31 The numbers still seem wrong. I'd expect to see almost exactly 2M minor faults with this test. Looky: #include <sys/mman.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <fcntl.h> #define G (1024 * 1024 * 1024) int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { char *p; int fd; unsigned long idx; int sum = 0; fd = open("foo", O_RDONLY); if (fd < 0) { perror("open"); exit(1); } p = mmap(NULL, 1 * G, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0); if (p == MAP_FAILED) { perror("mmap"); exit(1); } for (idx = 0; idx < 1 * G; idx += 4096) sum += p[idx]; printf("%d\n", sum); exit(0); } z:/home/akpm> /usr/bin/time ./a.out 0 0.05user 0.33system 0:00.38elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 4195856maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+262264minor)pagefaults 0swaps z:/home/akpm> dc 16o 262264 4 * p 1001E0 That's close! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html