On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 02:25:31PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > Alex Thorlton noticed that some massivly threaded workloads work poorly, > if THP enabled. This patchset fixes this by introducing split page table > lock for PMD tables. hugetlbfs is not covered yet. > > This patchset is based on work by Naoya Horiguchi. > > Changes: > v2: > - reuse CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS for PMD split lock; > - s/huge_pmd_lock/pmd_lock/g; > - assume pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() can fail; > - fix format line in task_mem() for VmPTE; > > Benchmark (from Alex): > ftp://shell.sgi.com/collect/appsx_test/pthread_test.tar.gz > Run on 4 socket Westmere with 128 GiB of RAM.
Kirill, I'm hitting some performance issues with these patches on our larger machines (>=128 cores/256 threads). I've managed to livelock larger systems with one of our tests (I'll publish this one soon), and I'm actually seeing a performance hit on some of the smaller ones. I'm currently collecting some results to show the problems I'm hitting, and trying to research what's causing the livelock. For now I just wanted to let you know that I'm seeing some issues. I'll be in touch with more details. Sorry for the delayed response, I wanted to be really sure that I was seeing problems before I put up a red flag. - Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
