Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] Support for 1GB THP

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On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 02:36:04PM -0800, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-03-01 at 16:44 -0500, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > I think it's both.  I heard from one customer who calculated that 
> > with a 6TB server, mapping every page into a process would take ~24MB 
> > of page tables.  Multiply that by the 50,000 processes they expect to
> > run on a server of that size consumes 1.2TB of DRAM.  Using 1GB pages
> > reduces that by a factor of 512, down to 2GB.
> 
> This sounds a bit implausible:

Well, that's the customer workload.  They have terabytes of data, and they
want to map all of it into all 50k processes.  I know it's not how I use
my machine, but that's customers for you ...

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