linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] make MADV

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Date:	Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:58:31 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
CC:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make MADV_FREE lazily free memory

Nick Piggin wrote:

>> The lazy freeing is aimed at avoiding page faults on memory
>> that is freed and later realloced, which is quite a common
>> thing in many workloads.
> 
> I would be interested to see how it performs and what these
> workloads look like, although we do need to fix the basic glibc and
> madvise locking problems first.

The attached graph are results of running the MySQL sysbench
workload on my quad core system.  As you can see, performance
with #threads == #cpus (4) almost doubles from 1070 transactions
per second to 2014 transactions/second.

On the high end (16 threads on 4 cpus), performance increases
from 778 transactions/second on vanilla to 1310 transactions/second.

I have also benchmarked running Ulrich's changed glibc on a vanilla
kernel, which gives results somewhere in-between, but much closer to
just the vanilla kernel.

-- 
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