Re: [PATCH v6 00/24] Speculative page faults

2018-01-17 Thread Laurent Dufour
Hi Kirill, Thanks for reviewing this series. On 16/01/2018 16:11, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 06:25:44PM +0100, Laurent Dufour wrote: >> -- >> Benchmarks results >> >> Base kernel is 4.15-rc6-mmotm-2018-01-04-16-19 >> SPF is BASE + this series > > Do you h

Re: [PATCH v6 00/24] Speculative page faults

2018-01-16 Thread Kirill A. Shutemov
On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 06:25:44PM +0100, Laurent Dufour wrote: > -- > Benchmarks results > > Base kernel is 4.15-rc6-mmotm-2018-01-04-16-19 > SPF is BASE + this series Do you have THP=always here? Lack of THP support worries me. What is performance in the worst case scenario? Li

[PATCH v6 00/24] Speculative page faults

2018-01-12 Thread Laurent Dufour
This is a port on kernel 4.15 of the work done by Peter Zijlstra to handle page fault without holding the mm semaphore [1]. The idea is to try to handle user space page faults without holding the mmap_sem. This should allow better concurrency for massively threaded process since the page fault han