Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932723AbWAGMZi (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 07:25:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932724AbWAGMZi (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 07:25:38 -0500 Received: from mtagate1.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.150]:33454 "EHLO mtagate1.de.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932723AbWAGMZh (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 07:25:37 -0500 Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 13:25:34 +0100 From: Heiko Carstens To: Dave McCracken Cc: Hugh Dickins , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , Linux Memory Management Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Shared page tables Message-ID: <20060107122534.GA20442@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel (Linux) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1366 Lines: 36 > Here's a new version of my shared page tables patch. > > The primary purpose of sharing page tables is improved performance for > large applications that share big memory areas between multiple processes. > It eliminates the redundant page tables and significantly reduces the > number of minor page faults. Tests show significant performance > improvement for large database applications, including those using large > pages. There is no measurable performance degradation for small processes. Tried to get this running with CONFIG_PTSHARE and CONFIG_PTSHARE_PTE on s390x. Unfortunately it crashed on boot, because pt_share_pte returned a broken pte pointer: > +pte_t *pt_share_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmd, > + ... > + pmd_val(spmde) = 0; > + ... > + if (pmd_present(spmde)) { This is wrong. A pmd_val of 0 will make pmd_present return true on s390x which is not what you want. Should be pmd_clear(&spmde). > +pmd_t *pt_share_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, pud_t *pud, > + ... > + pud_val(spude) = 0; Should be pud_clear, I guess :) Thanks, Heiko - 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/