On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 12:34 -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I am working with a tool that simulates oracle database I/O workload. > > This tool (orion to be specific - > > <http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e16638/iodesign.htm#autoId24>) > > allocates hugetlbfs pages using shmget() with SHM_HUGETLB flag. > > Is this tool available for download? I am not sure if it is available separately. It is part of Oracle 11gR2 release. > > I would rather prefer to address the locking overhead in THP too. > > The fundamental problem is that we have to touch all the pages? Not so much that THP has to touch all the pages, rather it checks the head and tail flags multiple times with the assumption they could change underneath. Then it executes memory barriers (in compound_trans_head()) to force any updates to these flags from all cores. It also locks the head page (in put_compound_page()) which stops any other thread trying to put reference to one of the pages in the compound page. I see a lot of cycles being spent in compound_trans_head() and various atomic operations in the path added by THP. -- Khalid -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>