Re: Quad core CPUs loaded at only 50% when running a CPU and mmap intensive multi-threaded task

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Aug 26 2008 - 04:13:20 EST


Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> writes:

As a general comment it still sounds there is a regression here?
If the workload was faster in an earlier kernel and is now slow
clearly something got slower? And that might be fixable.
Perhaps something for Rafael's list?

> Maybe if I had used hugepages it would have been a win,

hugepages do not support arbitary file backing.

-Andi

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