Re: [RFC v4 00/20] Speculative page faults

[Laurent Dufour]

On 09/06/2017 18:35, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 09-06-17 17:25:51, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> [...]
>> Thanks Michal for your feedback.
>>
>> I mostly focused on this database workload since this is the one where
>> we hit the mmap_sem bottleneck when running on big node. On my usual
>> victim node, I checked for basic usage like kernel build time, but I
>> agree that's clearly not enough.
>>
>> I try to find details about the 'kbench' you mentioned, but I didn't get
>> any valid entry.
>> Would you please point me on this or any other bench tool you think will
>> be useful here ?
> 
> Sorry I meant kernbech (aka parallel kernel build). Other highly threaded
> workloads doing a lot of page faults and address space modification
> would be good to see as well. I wish I could give you much more
> comprehensive list but I am not very good at benchmarks.
> 

Thanks Michal, I found kernbench 0.5, I will give it a try.