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Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 17:14:41 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
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Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv7 02/14] mm: Add support for unaccepted memory
On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 03:02:19PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On-demand memory accept means latency spikes every time kernel steps
> onto a new memory block. The spikes will go away once workload data
> set size gets stabilized or all memory gets accepted.
What does that mean?
If we're accepting 2M pages and considering referential locality, how
are those "spikes" even noticeable?
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