linux-kernel - Re: [BUGFIX]{PATCH] flush icache on ia64 take2

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Message-ID: <469F71E7.4050200@bull.net>
Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:15:03 +0200
From:	Zoltan Menyhart <Zoltan.Menyhart@...l.net>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, tony.luck@...el.com, nickpiggin@...oo.com.au,
	mike@...oyan.net, dmosberger@...il.com, y-goto@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [BUGFIX]{PATCH] flush icache on ia64 take2

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:

> But is it too costly that flushing icache page only if a page is newly
> installed into the system (PG_arch1) && it is mapped as executable ?

Well it was a bit long time ago, I measured on a Tiger box with
CPUs of 1.3 GHz:

Flushing a page of 64 Kbytes, with modified data in D-cache
(it's slower that not having modified data in the D-cache):

13.1 ... 14.7 usec.

You may have quicker machines, but having more CPUs or a NUMA architecture
can slow it down considerably:
- more CPUs have to agree that that's the moment to carry out a flush
- NUMA adds delay

We may have, say 1 Gbyte / sec local i/o activity (using some RAIDs).
Assume a few % of this 1 Gbyte is the program execution, or program swap in.
It gives some hundreds of new exec pages / sec =>
some msec-s can be lost each sec.

I can agree that it should not be a big deal :-)

> I don't want to leak this (stupid) corner case to the file system layer.
> Hmm...can't we do clever flushing (like your idea) in VM layer ?

As the VM layer is designed to be independent of the page read in stuff...

Thanks,

Zoltan
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