On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 01:28:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov > <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Here's new version of faultaround patchset. It took a while to tune it and > > collect performance data. > > Andrew, mind taking this into -mm with my acks? It's based on top of > Kirill's cleanup patches that I think are also in your tree. > > Kirill - no complaints from me. I do have two minor issues that you > might satisfy, but I think the patch is fine as-is. > > The issues/questions are: > > (a) could you test this on a couple of different architectures? Even > if you just have access to intel machines, testing it across a couple > of generations of microarchitectures would be good. The reason I say > that is that from my profiles, it *looks* like the page fault costs > are relatively higher on Ivybridge/Haswell than on some earlier > uarchs. These numbers were from Ivy Bridge. I'll bring some numbers for Westmere and Haswell. > (b) I suspect we should try to strongly discourage filesystems from > actually using map_pages unless they use the standard > filemap_map_pages function as-is. Even with the fairly clean > interface, and forcing people to use "do_set_pte()", I think the docs > might want to try to more explicitly discourage people from using this > to do their own hacks.. We would need ->map_pages() at least for shmem/tmpfs. It should be benefitial there. Also Matthew noticed that some drivers do ugly hacks like fault in whole VMA on first page fault. IIUC, it's for performance reasons. See psbfb_vm_fault() or ttm_bo_vm_fault(). I thought it could be reasonable to have ->map_pages() there and do VMA population get_user_pages() on mmap() instead. What do you think? -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- 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>