Hi,
I believe we will get to transparent huge pages at summit anyway. Below is data
points on file-backed transparent huge pages.
The code I have by the time is in my repo[1], see branches
thp/pc/v7/p1-base and thp/pc/v7/p2-mmap. Ning Qu works on rebasing
shmem/tmpfs support on top of this.
Workloads known to benefit from THP for page cache:
- MongoDB: mongoperf on ramfs shows increase number of iops by 1.9x for r/o and
1.7x for r/w;
- Google search/indexing benchmark shows +3% (in addition to +5% from AnonTHP),
on pair with hugetlbfs;
- IOZone shows improvement up to 2.5x on ramfs;
Should help also with:
- Reducing ITLB pressure:
+ x86-64 binaries is ready to be mapped with 2M pages: binutils creates
binaries with required file offset and virtual address alignment, no
changes required;
+ reported 11% performance increase of RDBMS by putting code to hugetlbfs;
+ MySQL spends 2.5% of cycles in page table walk due ITLB misses[2];
- HPC workloads on many-cores systems (like Xeon Phi): large code and data,
small TLB, limited memory bandwidth.
[1] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kas/linux.git
[2] http://research.cs.wisc.edu/multifacet/papers/isca13_direct_segment.pdf
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Kirill A. Shutemov
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