linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] Re: [PATCH] Add per-process flag to control thp

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:47:42 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Alex Thorlton <athorlton@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	"Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Robin Holt <holt@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Re: [PATCH] Add per-process flag to control thp

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 09:33:56AM -0500, Alex Thorlton wrote:

> This first set of tests was run on the latest community kernel, with the
> vclear patches:
> 
> Kernel string: Kernel 3.11.0-rc5-medusa-00021-g1a15a96-dirty
> harp31-sys:/home/estes04/athorlton/Testing/progs/thp_benchmarks/321.equake_l# cat /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
> [always] madvise never
> harp31-sys:/home/estes04/athorlton/Testing/progs/thp_benchmarks/321.equake_l# time ./run.sh
> ...
> Done. Terminating the simulation.
> 
> real    25m34.052s
> user    10769m7.948s
> sys     37m46.524s
> 
> harp31-sys:/home/estes04/athorlton/Testing/progs/thp_benchmarks/321.equake_l# echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
> harp31-sys:/home/estes04/athorlton/Testing/progs/thp_benchmarks/321.equake_l# cat /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
> always madvise [never]
> harp31-sys:/home/estes04/athorlton/Testing/progs/thp_benchmarks/321.equake_l# time ./run.sh
> ...
> Done. Terminating the simulation.
> 
> real    5m0.377s
> user    2202m0.684s
> sys     108m31.816s
> 

This 321.equake_l thing is not public, right? Do you have anything that
is public that shows the same problem?

Do you have any idea where all the extra time is spend? 
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/