Re: VM tuning through fault trace gathering [with actual code]
From: John Fremlin <hidden>
Date: 2001-06-26 12:55:25
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From: John Fremlin <hidden>
Date: 2001-06-26 12:55:25
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Marcelo Tosatti [off-list ref] writes:
On 25 Jun 2001, John Fremlin wrote:quoted
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.
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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? -- http://ape.n3.net -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/