The NUMA API change that introduced kmalloc_node was accepted for
2.6.12-rc3. Now it is possible to do slab allocations on a node to
localize memory structures. This API was used by the pageset localization
patch and the block layer localization patch now in mm. The existing
kmalloc_node is slow since it simply searches through all pages of the slab
to find a page that is on the node requested. The two patches do a one
time allocation of slab structures at initialization and therefore the
speed of kmalloc node does not matter.
This patch allows kmalloc_node to be as fast as kmalloc by introducing node
specific page lists for partial, free and full slabs. Slab allocation
improves in a NUMA system so that we are seeing a performance gain in AIM7
of about 5% with this patch alone.
More NUMA localizations are possible if kmalloc_node operates in an fast
way like kmalloc.
Test run on a 32p systems with 32G Ram.
w/o patch
Tasks jobs/min jti jobs/min/task real cpu
1 485.36 100 485.3640 11.99 1.91 Sat Apr 30 14:01:51 2005
100 26582.63 88 265.8263 21.89 144.96 Sat Apr 30 14:02:14 2005
200 29866.83 81 149.3342 38.97 286.08 Sat Apr 30 14:02:53 2005
300 33127.16 78 110.4239 52.71 426.54 Sat Apr 30 14:03:46 2005
400 34889.47 80 87.2237 66.72 568.90 Sat Apr 30 14:04:53 2005
500 35654.34 76 71.3087 81.62 714.55 Sat Apr 30 14:06:15 2005
600 36460.83 75 60.7681 95.77 853.42 Sat Apr 30 14:07:51 2005
700 35957.00 75 51.3671 113.30 990.67 Sat Apr 30 14:09:45 2005
800 33380.65 73 41.7258 139.48 1140.86 Sat Apr 30 14:12:05 2005
900 35095.01 76 38.9945 149.25 1281.30 Sat Apr 30 14:14:35 2005
1000 36094.37 74 36.0944 161.24 1419.66 Sat Apr 30 14:17:17 2005
w/patch
Tasks jobs/min jti jobs/min/task real cpu
1 484.27 100 484.2736 12.02 1.93 Sat Apr 30 15:59:45 2005
100 28262.03 90 282.6203 20.59 143.57 Sat Apr 30 16:00:06 2005
200 32246.45 82 161.2322 36.10 282.89 Sat Apr 30 16:00:42 2005
300 37945.80 83 126.4860 46.01 418.75 Sat Apr 30 16:01:28 2005
400 40000.69 81 100.0017 58.20 561.48 Sat Apr 30 16:02:27 2005
500 40976.10 78 81.9522 71.02 696.95 Sat Apr 30 16:03:38 2005
600 41121.54 78 68.5359 84.92 834.86 Sat Apr 30 16:05:04 2005
700 44052.77 78 62.9325 92.48 971.53 Sat Apr 30 16:06:37 2005
800 41066.89 79 51.3336 113.38 1111.15 Sat Apr 30 16:08:31 2005
900 38918.77 79 43.2431 134.59 1252.57 Sat Apr 30 16:10:46 2005
1000 41842.21 76 41.8422 139.09 1392.33 Sat Apr 30 16:13:05 2005
These are measurement taken directly after boot and show a greater
improvement than 5%. However, the performance improvements become less
over time if the AIM7 runs are repeated and settle down at around 5%.
Links to earlier discussions:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=111094594500003&r=1&w=2http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=111603406600002&r=1&w=2
Changelog V4-V5:
- alloc_arraycache and alloc_aliencache take node parameter instead of cpu
- fix initialization so that nodes without cpus are properly handled.
- simplify code in kmem_cache_init
- patch against Andrews temp mm3 release
- Add Shai to credits
- fallback to __cache_alloc from __cache_alloc_node if the node's cache
is not available yet.
Changelog V3-V4:
- Patch against 2.6.12-rc5-mm1
- Cleanup patch integrated
- More and better use of for_each_node and for_each_cpu
- GCC 2.95 fix (do not use [] use [0])
- Correct determination of INDEX_AC
- Remove hack to cause an error on platforms that have no CONFIG_NUMA but nodes.
- Remove list3_data and list3_data_ptr macros for better readability
Changelog V2-V3:
- Made to patch against 2.6.12-rc4-mm1
- Revised bootstrap mechanism so that larger size kmem_list3 structs can be
supported. Do a generic solution so that the right slab can be found
for the internal structs.
- use for_each_online_node
Changelog V1-V2:
- Batching for freeing of wrong-node objects (alien caches)
- Locking changes and NUMA #ifdefs as requested by Manfred
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <Shai@Scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch introduces a kzalloc wrapper and converts kernel/ to use it. It
saves a little program text.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Proposed by and based on a patch from Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>:
This patch removes unnecessary critical section in ksize() function, as
cli/sti are rather expensive on modern CPUS.
It additionally adds a docbook entry for ksize() and further simplifies the
code.
Signed-Off-By: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Mostobjects returned by __cache_alloc() will be written by the caller,
(but not all callers want to write all the object, but just at the
begining) prefetchw() tells the modern CPU to think about the future
writes, ie start some memory transactions in advance.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is used only in slab.c and each architecture gets to define whcih
underlying type is to be used.
Seems a bit silly - move it to slab.c and use the same type for all
architectures: unsigned int.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix a small spelling mistake. subtile->subtle
Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch used to be in Andrew's tree before the NUMA slab allocator went
in. Either this patch or the NUMA slab allocator is needed in order for
kmalloc_node to work correctly.
pcibus_to_node may be used to generate the node information passed to
kmalloc_node. pcibus_to_node returns -1 if it was not able to determine
on which node a pcibus is located. For that case kmalloc_node must
work like kmalloc.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch creates a new kstrdup library function and changes the "local"
implementations in several places to use this function.
Most of the changes come from the sound and net subsystems. The sound part
had already been acknowledged by Takashi Iwai and the net part by David S.
Miller.
I left UML alone for now because I would need more time to read the code
carefully before making changes there.
Signed-off-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The pageset array can potentially acquire a huge amount of memory on large
NUMA systems. F.e. on a system with 512 processors and 256 nodes there
will be 256*512 pagesets. If each pageset only holds 5 pages then we are
talking about 655360 pages.With a 16K page size on IA64 this results in
potentially 10 Gigabytes of memory being trapped in pagesets. The typical
cases are much less for smaller systems but there is still the potential of
memory being trapped in off node pagesets. Off node memory may be rarely
used if local memory is available and so we may potentially have memory in
seldom used pagesets without this patch.
The slab allocator flushes its per cpu caches every 2 seconds. The
following patch flushes the off node pageset caches in the same way by
tying into the slab flush.
The patch also changes /proc/zoneinfo to include the number of pages
currently in each pageset.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is for use with slab users that pass a dynamically allocated slab name in
kmem_cache_create, so that before destroying the slab one can retrieve the name
and free its memory.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch changes calls to synchronize_kernel(), deprecated in the earlier
"Deprecate synchronize_kernel, GPL replacement" patch to instead call the new
synchronize_rcu() and synchronize_sched() APIs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
