Re: VM tuning through fault trace gathering [with actual code]

From: Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Tue Jun 26 2001 - 08:52:16 EST


On 26 Jun 2001, John Fremlin wrote:

> Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> writes:
>
> > On 25 Jun 2001, John Fremlin wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Last year I had the idea of tracing the memory accesses of the system
> > > to improve the VM - the traces could be used to test algorithms in
> > > userspace. The difficulty is of course making all memory accesses
> > > fault without destroying system performance.
>
> [...]
>
> > Linux Trace Toolkit (http://www.opersys.com/LTT) does that.
>
> I dld the ltt-usenix paper and skim read it. It didn't seem to talk
> about page faults much. Where should I look?

Grab the source and try it out?

Example page fault trace:

####################################################################
Event Time PID Length Description
####################################################################

Trap entry 991,299,585,597,016 678 12 TRAP: page fault; EIP : 0x40067785

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