Re: Benchmarks for the Linux kernel MM architecture

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On 01/06/2017 04:29 PM, Till Smejkal wrote:
> Dear Linux MM community
>
> My name is Till Smejkal and I am a PhD Student at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. For a
> couple of weeks I have been working on a patchset for the Linux kernel which
> introduces a new functionality that allows address spaces to be first class citizens
> in the OS. The implementation is based on a concept presented in this [1] paper.
>
> The basic idea of the patchset is that an AS not necessarily needs to be coupled with
> a process but can be created and destroyed independently. A process still has its own
> AS which is created with the process and which also gets destroyed with the process,
> but in addition there can be other AS in the OS which are not bound to the lifetime
> of any process. These additional AS have to be created and destroyed actively by the
> user and can be attached to a process as additional AS. Attaching such an AS to a
> process allows the process to have different views on the memory between which the
> process can switch arbitrarily during its executing.
>
> This feature can be used in various different ways. For example to compartmentalize a
> process for security reasons or to improve the performance of data-centric
> applications.
>
> However, before I intend to submit the patchset to LKML, I first like to perform
> some benchmarks to identify possible performance drawbacks introduced by my changes
> to the original memory management architecture. Hence, I would like to ask if anyone
> of you could point me to some benchmarks which I can run to test my patchset and
> compare it against the original implementation.
>
> If there are any questions, please feel free to ask me. I am happy to answer any
> question related to the patchset and its idea/intention.
>
> Regards
> Till
>
> P.S.: Please keep me in the CC since I am not subscribed to this mailing list.
>
> [1] http://impact.crhc.illinois.edu/shared/Papers/ASPLOS16-SpaceJMP.pdf

https://github.com/gormanm/mmtests

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