Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266246AbTGJBWR (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 21:22:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266247AbTGJBWR (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 21:22:17 -0400 Received: from franka.aracnet.com ([216.99.193.44]:10696 "EHLO franka.aracnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266246AbTGJBWG (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 21:22:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 18:36:19 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [announce, patch] 4G/4G split on x86, 64 GB RAM (and more) support Message-ID: <80050000.1057800978@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 6166 Lines: 176 > i'm pleased to announce the first public release of the "4GB/4GB VM split" > patch, for the 2.5.74 Linux kernel: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/4g-patches/4g-2.5.74-F8 > > The 4G/4G split feature is primarily intended for large-RAM x86 systems, > which want to (or have to) get more kernel/user VM, at the expense of > per-syscall TLB-flush overhead. wli pointed out that the only problem with the NUMA boxen was that you left out "remap_numa_kva();" from pagetable_init - sticking it back at the end works fine. Preliminary benchmark results: 2.5.74-bk6-44 is with the patch applied 2.5.74-bk6-44-on is with the patch applied and config option turned on. Kernbench: (make -j vmlinux, maximal tasks) Elapsed System User CPU 2.5.74 46.11 115.86 571.77 1491.50 2.5.74-bk6-44 45.92 115.71 570.35 1494.75 2.5.74-bk6-44-on 48.11 134.51 583.88 1491.75 SDET 128 (see disclaimer) Throughput Std. Dev 2.5.74 100.0% 0.1% 2.5.74-bk6-44 100.3% 0.7% 2.5.74-bk6-44-on 92.1% 0.2% Which isn't too bad at all, considering ... highpte does this to it: Kernbench: (make -j vmlinux, maximal tasks) Elapsed System User CPU 2.5.73-mm3 45.38 114.91 565.81 1497.75 2.5.73-mm3-highpte 46.54 130.41 566.84 1498.00 SDET 16 (see disclaimer) Throughput Std. Dev 2.5.73-mm3 100.0% 0.3% 2.5.73-mm3-highpte 94.8% 0.6% (I don't have highpte results for higher SDET right now - I'll run 'em later). diffprofile for kernbench (- is better with 4/4 on, + worse) 15066 9.2% total 10883 0.0% rw_vm 3686 170.3% do_page_fault 1652 3.4% default_idle 1380 0.0% str_vm 1256 0.0% follow_page 1012 7.2% do_anonymous_page 669 119.7% kmap_atomic 611 78.1% handle_mm_fault 563 0.0% get_user_pages 418 41.4% clear_page_tables 338 66.3% page_address 304 16.9% buffered_rmqueue 263 222.9% kunmap_atomic 161 2.0% __d_lookup 152 21.8% sys_brk 151 26.3% find_vma 138 24.3% pgd_alloc 135 9.3% schedule 133 0.6% page_remove_rmap 128 0.0% put_user_size 123 3.4% find_get_page 121 8.4% free_hot_cold_page 106 3.3% zap_pte_range 99 11.1% filemap_nopage 97 1.5% page_add_rmap 84 7.5% file_move 79 6.6% release_pages 65 0.0% get_user_size 59 15.7% file_kill 52 0.0% find_extend_vma ... -50 -47.2% kmap_high -63 -10.8% fd_install -76 -100.0% bad_get_user -86 -11.6% pte_alloc_one -109 -100.0% direct_strncpy_from_user -151 -100.0% __copy_user_intel -878 -100.0% direct_strnlen_user -3505 -100.0% __copy_from_user_ll -5368 -100.0% __copy_to_user_ll and for SDET: 63719 8.1% total 39097 9.8% default_idle 12494 0.0% rw_vm 4820 192.6% do_page_fault 3587 36.4% clear_page_tables 3341 0.0% follow_page 1744 0.0% str_vm 1297 138.4% kmap_atomic 1026 43.8% pgd_alloc 1010 0.0% get_user_pages 932 27.6% do_anonymous_page 877 100.2% handle_mm_fault 828 14.2% path_lookup 605 42.9% page_address 552 13.3% do_wp_page 496 216.6% kunmap_atomic 455 4.1% __d_lookup 441 2.5% zap_pte_range 415 12.8% do_no_page 408 36.7% __block_prepare_write 349 2.5% copy_page_range 331 12.3% filemap_nopage 308 0.0% put_user_size 305 43.9% find_vma 266 35.7% update_atime 212 2.3% find_get_page 209 8.4% proc_pid_stat 196 9.1% schedule 188 7.7% buffered_rmqueue 186 5.2% pte_alloc_one 166 13.7% __find_get_block 162 15.1% __mark_inode_dirty 159 9.1% current_kernel_time 155 18.1% grab_block 149 1.5% release_pages 124 2.6% follow_mount 118 7.6% ext2_new_inode 117 5.6% path_release 113 28.2% __free_pages 113 0.0% get_user_size 107 12.1% dnotify_parent 105 20.8% __alloc_pages 102 18.4% generic_file_aio_write_nolock 102 4.7% file_move ... -101 -6.5% __set_page_dirty_buffers -102 -30.7% kunmap_high -104 -13.4% .text.lock.base -108 -3.9% copy_process -114 -13.4% unmap_vmas -121 -5.0% link_path_walk -127 -10.5% __read_lock_failed -128 -24.3% set_page_address -180 -100.0% bad_get_user -237 -11.6% .text.lock.namei -243 -100.0% direct_strncpy_from_user -262 -0.3% page_remove_rmap -310 -5.6% kmem_cache_free -332 -4.4% atomic_dec_and_lock -365 -35.3% kmap_high -458 -15.7% .text.lock.dcache -583 -22.8% .text.lock.filemap -609 -13.4% .text.lock.dec_and_lock -649 -54.9% .text.lock.highmem -848 -100.0% direct_strnlen_user -877 -100.0% __copy_user_intel -958 -100.0% __copy_from_user_ll -1098 -2.7% page_add_rmap -6746 -100.0% __copy_to_user_ll I'll play around some more with it later. Presumably things like disk / network intensive workloads that generate a lot of interrupts will be bad ... but NAPI would help? What I *really* like is that without the config option on, there's no degredation ;-) M. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/