Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754224Ab2JPLNR (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:13:17 -0400 Received: from mail-ia0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:65043 "EHLO mail-ia0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753908Ab2JPLNP (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:13:15 -0400 Message-ID: <507D4143.3020108@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:13:07 +0800 From: Ni zhan Chen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121011 Thunderbird/16.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" CC: "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Andrew Morton , Andrea Arcangeli , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andi Kleen , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/10, REBASED] Introduce huge zero page References: <1350280859-18801-1-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> <507D2E83.4010702@gmail.com> <20121016105456.GA13265@shutemov.name> In-Reply-To: <20121016105456.GA13265@shutemov.name> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 9229 Lines: 157 On 10/16/2012 06:54 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 05:53:07PM +0800, Ni zhan Chen wrote: >>> By hpa request I've tried alternative approach for hzp implementation (see >>> Virtual huge zero page patchset): pmd table with all entries set to zero >>> page. This way should be more cache friendly, but it increases TLB >>> pressure. >> Thanks for your excellent works. But could you explain me why >> current implementation not cache friendly and hpa's request cache >> friendly? Thanks in advance. > In workloads like microbenchmark1 you need N * size(zero page) cache > space to get zero page fully cached, where N is cache associativity. > If zero page is 2M, cache pressure is significant. > > On other hand with table of 4k zero pages (hpa's proposal) will increase > pressure on TLB, since we have more pages for the same memory area. So we > have to do more page translation in this case. > > On my test machine with simple memcmp() virtual huge zero page is faster. > But it highly depends on TLB size, cache size, memory access and page > translation costs. > > It looks like cache size in modern processors grows faster than TLB size. Oh, I see, thanks for your quick response. Another one question below， > >>> The problem with virtual huge zero page: it requires per-arch enabling. >>> We need a way to mark that pmd table has all ptes set to zero page. >>> >>> Some numbers to compare two implementations (on 4s Westmere-EX): >>> >>> Mirobenchmark1 >>> ============== >>> >>> test: >>> posix_memalign((void **)&p, 2 * MB, 8 * GB); >>> for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) { >>> assert(memcmp(p, p + 4*GB, 4*GB) == 0); >>> asm volatile ("": : :"memory"); >>> } >>> >>> hzp: >>> Performance counter stats for './test_memcmp' (5 runs): >>> >>> 32356.272845 task-clock # 0.998 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.13% ) >>> 40 context-switches # 0.001 K/sec ( +- 0.94% ) >>> 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 K/sec >>> 4,218 page-faults # 0.130 K/sec ( +- 0.00% ) >>> 76,712,481,765 cycles # 2.371 GHz ( +- 0.13% ) [83.31%] >>> 36,279,577,636 stalled-cycles-frontend # 47.29% frontend cycles idle ( +- 0.28% ) [83.35%] >>> 1,684,049,110 stalled-cycles-backend # 2.20% backend cycles idle ( +- 2.96% ) [66.67%] >>> 134,355,715,816 instructions # 1.75 insns per cycle >>> # 0.27 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 0.10% ) [83.35%] >>> 13,526,169,702 branches # 418.039 M/sec ( +- 0.10% ) [83.31%] >>> 1,058,230 branch-misses # 0.01% of all branches ( +- 0.91% ) [83.36%] >>> >>> 32.413866442 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.13% ) >>> >>> vhzp: >>> Performance counter stats for './test_memcmp' (5 runs): >>> >>> 30327.183829 task-clock # 0.998 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.13% ) >>> 38 context-switches # 0.001 K/sec ( +- 1.53% ) >>> 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 K/sec >>> 4,218 page-faults # 0.139 K/sec ( +- 0.01% ) >>> 71,964,773,660 cycles # 2.373 GHz ( +- 0.13% ) [83.35%] >>> 31,191,284,231 stalled-cycles-frontend # 43.34% frontend cycles idle ( +- 0.40% ) [83.32%] >>> 773,484,474 stalled-cycles-backend # 1.07% backend cycles idle ( +- 6.61% ) [66.67%] >>> 134,982,215,437 instructions # 1.88 insns per cycle >>> # 0.23 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 0.11% ) [83.32%] >>> 13,509,150,683 branches # 445.447 M/sec ( +- 0.11% ) [83.34%] >>> 1,017,667 branch-misses # 0.01% of all branches ( +- 1.07% ) [83.32%] >>> >>> 30.381324695 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.13% ) >> Could you tell me which data I should care in this performance >> counter. And what's the benefit of your current implementation >> compare to hpa's request? Sorry for my unintelligent. Could you tell me which data I should care in this performance counter stats. The same question about the second benchmark counter stats, thanks in adance. :-) >>> Mirobenchmark2 >>> ============== >>> >>> test: >>> posix_memalign((void **)&p, 2 * MB, 8 * GB); >>> for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { >>> char *_p = p; >>> while (_p < p+4*GB) { >>> assert(*_p == *(_p+4*GB)); >>> _p += 4096; >>> asm volatile ("": : :"memory"); >>> } >>> } >>> >>> hzp: >>> Performance counter stats for 'taskset -c 0 ./test_memcmp2' (5 runs): >>> >>> 3505.727639 task-clock # 0.998 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.26% ) >>> 9 context-switches # 0.003 K/sec ( +- 4.97% ) >>> 4,384 page-faults # 0.001 M/sec ( +- 0.00% ) >>> 8,318,482,466 cycles # 2.373 GHz ( +- 0.26% ) [33.31%] >>> 5,134,318,786 stalled-cycles-frontend # 61.72% frontend cycles idle ( +- 0.42% ) [33.32%] >>> 2,193,266,208 stalled-cycles-backend # 26.37% backend cycles idle ( +- 5.51% ) [33.33%] >>> 9,494,670,537 instructions # 1.14 insns per cycle >>> # 0.54 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 0.13% ) [41.68%] >>> 2,108,522,738 branches # 601.451 M/sec ( +- 0.09% ) [41.68%] >>> 158,746 branch-misses # 0.01% of all branches ( +- 1.60% ) [41.71%] >>> 3,168,102,115 L1-dcache-loads >>> # 903.693 M/sec ( +- 0.11% ) [41.70%] >>> 1,048,710,998 L1-dcache-misses >>> # 33.10% of all L1-dcache hits ( +- 0.11% ) [41.72%] >>> 1,047,699,685 LLC-load >>> # 298.854 M/sec ( +- 0.03% ) [33.38%] >>> 2,287 LLC-misses >>> # 0.00% of all LL-cache hits ( +- 8.27% ) [33.37%] >>> 3,166,187,367 dTLB-loads >>> # 903.147 M/sec ( +- 0.02% ) [33.35%] >>> 4,266,538 dTLB-misses >>> # 0.13% of all dTLB cache hits ( +- 0.03% ) [33.33%] >>> >>> 3.513339813 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.26% ) >>> >>> vhzp: >>> Performance counter stats for 'taskset -c 0 ./test_memcmp2' (5 runs): >>> >>> 27313.891128 task-clock # 0.998 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.24% ) >>> 62 context-switches # 0.002 K/sec ( +- 0.61% ) >>> 4,384 page-faults # 0.160 K/sec ( +- 0.01% ) >>> 64,747,374,606 cycles # 2.370 GHz ( +- 0.24% ) [33.33%] >>> 61,341,580,278 stalled-cycles-frontend # 94.74% frontend cycles idle ( +- 0.26% ) [33.33%] >>> 56,702,237,511 stalled-cycles-backend # 87.57% backend cycles idle ( +- 0.07% ) [33.33%] >>> 10,033,724,846 instructions # 0.15 insns per cycle >>> # 6.11 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 0.09% ) [41.65%] >>> 2,190,424,932 branches # 80.195 M/sec ( +- 0.12% ) [41.66%] >>> 1,028,630 branch-misses # 0.05% of all branches ( +- 1.50% ) [41.66%] >>> 3,302,006,540 L1-dcache-loads >>> # 120.891 M/sec ( +- 0.11% ) [41.68%] >>> 271,374,358 L1-dcache-misses >>> # 8.22% of all L1-dcache hits ( +- 0.04% ) [41.66%] >>> 20,385,476 LLC-load >>> # 0.746 M/sec ( +- 1.64% ) [33.34%] >>> 76,754 LLC-misses >>> # 0.38% of all LL-cache hits ( +- 2.35% ) [33.34%] >>> 3,309,927,290 dTLB-loads >>> # 121.181 M/sec ( +- 0.03% ) [33.34%] >>> 2,098,967,427 dTLB-misses >>> # 63.41% of all dTLB cache hits ( +- 0.03% ) [33.34%] >>> >>> 27.364448741 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.24% ) >> For this case, the same question as above, thanks in adance. :-) -- 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/