Re: [PATCHv7 02/14] mm: Add support for unaccepted memory

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Jul 21 2022 - 11:17:10 EST


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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