linux/mm/slab.c

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[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] cpuset memory spread slab cache implementation Provide the slab cache infrastructure to support cpuset memory spreading. See the previous patches, cpuset_mem_spread, for an explanation of cpuset memory spreading. This patch provides a slab cache SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag. If set in the kmem_cache_create() call defining a slab cache, then any task marked with the process state flag PF_MEMSPREAD will spread memory page allocations for that cache over all the allowed nodes, instead of preferring the local (faulting) node. On systems not configured with CONFIG_NUMA, this results in no change to the page allocation code path for slab caches. On systems with cpusets configured in the kernel, but the "memory_spread" cpuset option not enabled for the current tasks cpuset, this adds a call to a cpuset routine and failed bit test of the processor state flag PF_SPREAD_SLAB. For tasks so marked, a second inline test is done for the slab cache flag SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, and if that is set and if the allocation is not in_interrupt(), this adds a call to to a cpuset routine that computes which of the tasks mems_allowed nodes should be preferred for this allocation. ==> This patch adds another hook into the performance critical code path to allocating objects from the slab cache, in the ____cache_alloc() chunk, below. The next patch optimizes this hook, reducing the impact of the combined mempolicy plus memory spreading hooks on this critical code path to a single check against the tasks task_struct flags word. This patch provides the generic slab flags and logic needed to apply memory spreading to a particular slab. A subsequent patch will mark a few specific slab caches for this placement policy. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 03:16:07 -08:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] NUMA policies in the slab allocator V2 This patch fixes a regression in 2.6.14 against 2.6.13 that causes an imbalance in memory allocation during bootup. The slab allocator in 2.6.13 is not numa aware and simply calls alloc_pages(). This means that memory policies may control the behavior of alloc_pages(). During bootup the memory policy is set to MPOL_INTERLEAVE resulting in the spreading out of allocations during bootup over all available nodes. The slab allocator in 2.6.13 has only a single list of slab pages. As a result the per cpu slab cache and the spinlock controlled page lists may contain slab entries from off node memory. The slab allocator in 2.6.13 makes no effort to discern the locality of an entry on its lists. The NUMA aware slab allocator in 2.6.14 controls locality of the slab pages explicitly by calling alloc_pages_node(). The NUMA slab allocator manages slab entries by having lists of available slab pages for each node. The per cpu slab cache can only contain slab entries associated with the node local to the processor. This guarantees that the default allocation mode of the slab allocator always assigns local memory if available. Setting MPOL_INTERLEAVE as a default policy during bootup has no effect anymore. In 2.6.14 all node unspecific slab allocations are performed on the boot processor. This means that most of key data structures are allocated on one node. Most processors will have to refer to these structures making the boot node a potential bottleneck. This may reduce performance and cause unnecessary memory pressure on the boot node. This patch implements NUMA policies in the slab layer. There is the need of explicit application of NUMA memory policies by the slab allcator itself since the NUMA slab allocator does no longer let the page_allocator control locality. The check for policies is made directly at the beginning of __cache_alloc using current->mempolicy. The memory policy is already frequently checked by the page allocator (alloc_page_vma() and alloc_page_current()). So it is highly likely that the cacheline is present. For MPOL_INTERLEAVE kmalloc() will spread out each request to one node after another so that an equal distribution of allocations can be obtained during bootup. It is not possible to push the policy check to lower layers of the NUMA slab allocator since the per cpu caches are now only containing slab entries from the current node. If the policy says that the local node is not to be preferred or forbidden then there is no point in checking the slab cache or local list of slab pages. The allocation better be directed immediately to the lists containing slab entries for the allowed set of nodes. This way of applying policy also fixes another strange behavior in 2.6.13. alloc_pages() is controlled by the memory allocation policy of the current process. It could therefore be that one process is running with MPOL_INTERLEAVE and would f.e. obtain a new page following that policy since no slab entries are in the lists anymore. A page can typically be used for multiple slab entries but lets say that the current process is only using one. The other entries are then added to the slab lists. These are now non local entries in the slab lists despite of the possible availability of local pages that would provide faster access and increase the performance of the application. Another process without MPOL_INTERLEAVE may now run and expect a local slab entry from kmalloc(). However, there are still these free slab entries from the off node page obtained from the other process via MPOL_INTERLEAVE in the cache. The process will then get an off node slab entry although other slab entries may be available that are local to that process. This means that the policy if one process may contaminate the locality of the slab caches for other processes. This patch in effect insures that a per process policy is followed for the allocation of slab entries and that there cannot be a memory policy influence from one process to another. A process with default policy will always get a local slab entry if one is available. And the process using memory policies will get its memory arranged as requested. Off-node slab allocation will require the use of spinlocks and will make the use of per cpu caches not possible. A process using memory policies to redirect allocations offnode will have to cope with additional lock overhead in addition to the latency added by the need to access a remote slab entry. Changes V1->V2 - Remove #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA by moving forward declaration into prior #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA section. - Give the function determining the node number to use a saner name. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 17:42:36 -08:00
2006-12-13 00:34:27 -08:00
infrastructure to debug (dynamic) objects We can see an ever repeating problem pattern with objects of any kind in the kernel: 1) freeing of active objects 2) reinitialization of active objects Both problems can be hard to debug because the crash happens at a point where we have no chance to decode the root cause anymore. One problem spot are kernel timers, where the detection of the problem often happens in interrupt context and usually causes the machine to panic. While working on a timer related bug report I had to hack specialized code into the timer subsystem to get a reasonable hint for the root cause. This debug hack was fine for temporary use, but far from a mergeable solution due to the intrusiveness into the timer code. The code further lacked the ability to detect and report the root cause instantly and keep the system operational. Keeping the system operational is important to get hold of the debug information without special debugging aids like serial consoles and special knowledge of the bug reporter. The problems described above are not restricted to timers, but timers tend to expose it usually in a full system crash. Other objects are less explosive, but the symptoms caused by such mistakes can be even harder to debug. Instead of creating specialized debugging code for the timer subsystem a generic infrastructure is created which allows developers to verify their code and provides an easy to enable debug facility for users in case of trouble. The debugobjects core code keeps track of operations on static and dynamic objects by inserting them into a hashed list and sanity checking them on object operations and provides additional checks whenever kernel memory is freed. The tracked object operations are: - initializing an object - adding an object to a subsystem list - deleting an object from a subsystem list Each operation is sanity checked before the operation is executed and the subsystem specific code can provide a fixup function which allows to prevent the damage of the operation. When the sanity check triggers a warning message and a stack trace is printed. The list of operations can be extended if the need arises. For now it's limited to the requirements of the first user (timers). The core code enqueues the objects into hash buckets. The hash index is generated from the address of the object to simplify the lookup for the check on kfree/vfree. Each bucket has it's own spinlock to avoid contention on a global lock. The debug code can be compiled in without being active. The runtime overhead is minimal and could be optimized by asm alternatives. A kernel command line option enables the debugging code. Thanks to Ingo Molnar for review, suggestions and cleanup patches. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 00:55:01 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some changes to allocator boostrap code. Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar: We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code: [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000 [ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c [ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001 [ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002 [ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc [ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0 [ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003 [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c [ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-10 19:40:04 +03:00
2006-11-22 14:55:48 +00:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
2005-11-08 16:44:08 +01:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
Increase slab redzone to 64bits There are two problems with the existing redzone implementation. Firstly, it's causing misalignment of structures which contain a 64-bit integer, such as netfilter's 'struct ipt_entry' -- causing netfilter modules to fail to load because of the misalignment. (In particular, the first check in net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c::check_entry_size_and_hooks()) On ppc32 and sparc32, amongst others, __alignof__(uint64_t) == 8. With slab debugging, we use 32-bit redzones. And allocated slab objects aren't sufficiently aligned to hold a structure containing a uint64_t. By _just_ setting ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to __alignof__(u64) we'd disable redzone checks on those architectures. By using 64-bit redzones we avoid that loss of debugging, and also fix the other problem while we're at it. When investigating this, I noticed that on 64-bit platforms we're using a 32-bit value of RED_ACTIVE/RED_INACTIVE in the 64-bit memory location set aside for the redzone. Which means that the four bytes immediately before or after the allocated object at 0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00 for LE and BE machines, respectively. Which is probably not the most useful choice of poison value. One way to fix both of those at once is just to switch to 64-bit redzones in all cases. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 00:22:59 -07:00
Increase slab redzone to 64bits There are two problems with the existing redzone implementation. Firstly, it's causing misalignment of structures which contain a 64-bit integer, such as netfilter's 'struct ipt_entry' -- causing netfilter modules to fail to load because of the misalignment. (In particular, the first check in net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c::check_entry_size_and_hooks()) On ppc32 and sparc32, amongst others, __alignof__(uint64_t) == 8. With slab debugging, we use 32-bit redzones. And allocated slab objects aren't sufficiently aligned to hold a structure containing a uint64_t. By _just_ setting ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to __alignof__(u64) we'd disable redzone checks on those architectures. By using 64-bit redzones we avoid that loss of debugging, and also fix the other problem while we're at it. When investigating this, I noticed that on 64-bit platforms we're using a 32-bit value of RED_ACTIVE/RED_INACTIVE in the 64-bit memory location set aside for the redzone. Which means that the four bytes immediately before or after the allocated object at 0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00 for LE and BE machines, respectively. Which is probably not the most useful choice of poison value. One way to fix both of those at once is just to switch to 64-bit redzones in all cases. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 00:22:59 -07:00
Increase slab redzone to 64bits There are two problems with the existing redzone implementation. Firstly, it's causing misalignment of structures which contain a 64-bit integer, such as netfilter's 'struct ipt_entry' -- causing netfilter modules to fail to load because of the misalignment. (In particular, the first check in net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c::check_entry_size_and_hooks()) On ppc32 and sparc32, amongst others, __alignof__(uint64_t) == 8. With slab debugging, we use 32-bit redzones. And allocated slab objects aren't sufficiently aligned to hold a structure containing a uint64_t. By _just_ setting ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to __alignof__(u64) we'd disable redzone checks on those architectures. By using 64-bit redzones we avoid that loss of debugging, and also fix the other problem while we're at it. When investigating this, I noticed that on 64-bit platforms we're using a 32-bit value of RED_ACTIVE/RED_INACTIVE in the 64-bit memory location set aside for the redzone. Which means that the four bytes immediately before or after the allocated object at 0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00 for LE and BE machines, respectively. Which is probably not the most useful choice of poison value. One way to fix both of those at once is just to switch to 64-bit redzones in all cases. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 00:22:59 -07:00
Increase slab redzone to 64bits There are two problems with the existing redzone implementation. Firstly, it's causing misalignment of structures which contain a 64-bit integer, such as netfilter's 'struct ipt_entry' -- causing netfilter modules to fail to load because of the misalignment. (In particular, the first check in net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c::check_entry_size_and_hooks()) On ppc32 and sparc32, amongst others, __alignof__(uint64_t) == 8. With slab debugging, we use 32-bit redzones. And allocated slab objects aren't sufficiently aligned to hold a structure containing a uint64_t. By _just_ setting ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to __alignof__(u64) we'd disable redzone checks on those architectures. By using 64-bit redzones we avoid that loss of debugging, and also fix the other problem while we're at it. When investigating this, I noticed that on 64-bit platforms we're using a 32-bit value of RED_ACTIVE/RED_INACTIVE in the 64-bit memory location set aside for the redzone. Which means that the four bytes immediately before or after the allocated object at 0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00 for LE and BE machines, respectively. Which is probably not the most useful choice of poison value. One way to fix both of those at once is just to switch to 64-bit redzones in all cases. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 00:22:59 -07:00
Increase slab redzone to 64bits There are two problems with the existing redzone implementation. Firstly, it's causing misalignment of structures which contain a 64-bit integer, such as netfilter's 'struct ipt_entry' -- causing netfilter modules to fail to load because of the misalignment. (In particular, the first check in net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c::check_entry_size_and_hooks()) On ppc32 and sparc32, amongst others, __alignof__(uint64_t) == 8. With slab debugging, we use 32-bit redzones. And allocated slab objects aren't sufficiently aligned to hold a structure containing a uint64_t. By _just_ setting ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to __alignof__(u64) we'd disable redzone checks on those architectures. By using 64-bit redzones we avoid that loss of debugging, and also fix the other problem while we're at it. When investigating this, I noticed that on 64-bit platforms we're using a 32-bit value of RED_ACTIVE/RED_INACTIVE in the 64-bit memory location set aside for the redzone. Which means that the four bytes immediately before or after the allocated object at 0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00 for LE and BE machines, respectively. Which is probably not the most useful choice of poison value. One way to fix both of those at once is just to switch to 64-bit redzones in all cases. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 00:22:59 -07:00
Increase slab redzone to 64bits There are two problems with the existing redzone implementation. Firstly, it's causing misalignment of structures which contain a 64-bit integer, such as netfilter's 'struct ipt_entry' -- causing netfilter modules to fail to load because of the misalignment. (In particular, the first check in net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c::check_entry_size_and_hooks()) On ppc32 and sparc32, amongst others, __alignof__(uint64_t) == 8. With slab debugging, we use 32-bit redzones. And allocated slab objects aren't sufficiently aligned to hold a structure containing a uint64_t. By _just_ setting ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to __alignof__(u64) we'd disable redzone checks on those architectures. By using 64-bit redzones we avoid that loss of debugging, and also fix the other problem while we're at it. When investigating this, I noticed that on 64-bit platforms we're using a 32-bit value of RED_ACTIVE/RED_INACTIVE in the 64-bit memory location set aside for the redzone. Which means that the four bytes immediately before or after the allocated object at 0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00 for LE and BE machines, respectively. Which is probably not the most useful choice of poison value. One way to fix both of those at once is just to switch to 64-bit redzones in all cases. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 00:22:59 -07:00
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2006-12-13 00:34:27 -08:00
2006-12-13 00:34:27 -08:00
SLAB: Fix lockdep annotations for CPU hotplug As reported by Paul McKenney: I am seeing some lockdep complaints in rcutorture runs that include frequent CPU-hotplug operations. The tests are otherwise successful. My first thought was to send a patch that gave each array_cache structure's ->lock field its own struct lock_class_key, but you already have a init_lock_keys() that seems to be intended to deal with this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ============================================= [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] 2.6.32-rc4-autokern1 #1 --------------------------------------------- syslogd/2908 is trying to acquire lock: (&nc->lock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000001407f4>] .kmem_cache_free+0x118/0x2d4 but task is already holding lock: (&nc->lock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000001411bc>] .kfree+0x1f0/0x324 other info that might help us debug this: 3 locks held by syslogd/2908: #0: (&u->readlock){+.+.+.}, at: [<c0000000004556f8>] .unix_dgram_recvmsg+0x70/0x338 #1: (&nc->lock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000001411bc>] .kfree+0x1f0/0x324 #2: (&parent->list_lock){-.-...}, at: [<c000000000140f64>] .__drain_alien_cache+0x50/0xb8 stack backtrace: Call Trace: [c0000000e8ccafc0] [c0000000000101e4] .show_stack+0x70/0x184 (unreliable) [c0000000e8ccb070] [c0000000000afebc] .validate_chain+0x6ec/0xf58 [c0000000e8ccb180] [c0000000000b0ff0] .__lock_acquire+0x8c8/0x974 [c0000000e8ccb280] [c0000000000b2290] .lock_acquire+0x140/0x18c [c0000000e8ccb350] [c000000000468df0] ._spin_lock+0x48/0x70 [c0000000e8ccb3e0] [c0000000001407f4] .kmem_cache_free+0x118/0x2d4 [c0000000e8ccb4a0] [c000000000140b90] .free_block+0x130/0x1a8 [c0000000e8ccb540] [c000000000140f94] .__drain_alien_cache+0x80/0xb8 [c0000000e8ccb5e0] [c0000000001411e0] .kfree+0x214/0x324 [c0000000e8ccb6a0] [c0000000003ca860] .skb_release_data+0xe8/0x104 [c0000000e8ccb730] [c0000000003ca2ec] .__kfree_skb+0x20/0xd4 [c0000000e8ccb7b0] [c0000000003cf2c8] .skb_free_datagram+0x1c/0x5c [c0000000e8ccb830] [c00000000045597c] .unix_dgram_recvmsg+0x2f4/0x338 [c0000000e8ccb920] [c0000000003c0f14] .sock_recvmsg+0xf4/0x13c [c0000000e8ccbb30] [c0000000003c28ec] .SyS_recvfrom+0xb4/0x130 [c0000000e8ccbcb0] [c0000000003bfb78] .sys_recv+0x18/0x2c [c0000000e8ccbd20] [c0000000003ed388] .compat_sys_recv+0x14/0x28 [c0000000e8ccbd90] [c0000000003ee1bc] .compat_sys_socketcall+0x178/0x220 [c0000000e8ccbe30] [c0000000000085d4] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40 This patch fixes the issue by setting up lockdep annotations during CPU hotplug. Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-11-23 22:01:15 +02:00
SLAB: Fix lockdep annotations for CPU hotplug As reported by Paul McKenney: I am seeing some lockdep complaints in rcutorture runs that include frequent CPU-hotplug operations. The tests are otherwise successful. My first thought was to send a patch that gave each array_cache structure's ->lock field its own struct lock_class_key, but you already have a init_lock_keys() that seems to be intended to deal with this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ============================================= [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] 2.6.32-rc4-autokern1 #1 --------------------------------------------- syslogd/2908 is trying to acquire lock: (&nc->lock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000001407f4>] .kmem_cache_free+0x118/0x2d4 but task is already holding lock: (&nc->lock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000001411bc>] .kfree+0x1f0/0x324 other info that might help us debug this: 3 locks held by syslogd/2908: #0: (&u->readlock){+.+.+.}, at: [<c0000000004556f8>] .unix_dgram_recvmsg+0x70/0x338 #1: (&nc->lock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000001411bc>] .kfree+0x1f0/0x324 #2: (&parent->list_lock){-.-...}, at: [<c000000000140f64>] .__drain_alien_cache+0x50/0xb8 stack backtrace: Call Trace: [c0000000e8ccafc0] [c0000000000101e4] .show_stack+0x70/0x184 (unreliable) [c0000000e8ccb070] [c0000000000afebc] .validate_chain+0x6ec/0xf58 [c0000000e8ccb180] [c0000000000b0ff0] .__lock_acquire+0x8c8/0x974 [c0000000e8ccb280] [c0000000000b2290] .lock_acquire+0x140/0x18c [c0000000e8ccb350] [c000000000468df0] ._spin_lock+0x48/0x70 [c0000000e8ccb3e0] [c0000000001407f4] .kmem_cache_free+0x118/0x2d4 [c0000000e8ccb4a0] [c000000000140b90] .free_block+0x130/0x1a8 [c0000000e8ccb540] [c000000000140f94] .__drain_alien_cache+0x80/0xb8 [c0000000e8ccb5e0] [c0000000001411e0] .kfree+0x214/0x324 [c0000000e8ccb6a0] [c0000000003ca860] .skb_release_data+0xe8/0x104 [c0000000e8ccb730] [c0000000003ca2ec] .__kfree_skb+0x20/0xd4 [c0000000e8ccb7b0] [c0000000003cf2c8] .skb_free_datagram+0x1c/0x5c [c0000000e8ccb830] [c00000000045597c] .unix_dgram_recvmsg+0x2f4/0x338 [c0000000e8ccb920] [c0000000003c0f14] .sock_recvmsg+0xf4/0x13c [c0000000e8ccbb30] [c0000000003c28ec] .SyS_recvfrom+0xb4/0x130 [c0000000e8ccbcb0] [c0000000003bfb78] .sys_recv+0x18/0x2c [c0000000e8ccbd20] [c0000000003ed388] .compat_sys_recv+0x14/0x28 [c0000000e8ccbd90] [c0000000003ee1bc] .compat_sys_socketcall+0x178/0x220 [c0000000e8ccbe30] [c0000000000085d4] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40 This patch fixes the issue by setting up lockdep annotations during CPU hotplug. Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-11-23 22:01:15 +02:00
SLAB: Fix lockdep annotations for CPU hotplug As reported by Paul McKenney: I am seeing some lockdep complaints in rcutorture runs that include frequent CPU-hotplug operations. The tests are otherwise successful. My first thought was to send a patch that gave each array_cache structure's ->lock field its own struct lock_class_key, but you already have a init_lock_keys() that seems to be intended to deal with this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ============================================= [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] 2.6.32-rc4-autokern1 #1 --------------------------------------------- syslogd/2908 is trying to acquire lock: (&nc->lock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000001407f4>] .kmem_cache_free+0x118/0x2d4 but task is already holding lock: (&nc->lock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000001411bc>] .kfree+0x1f0/0x324 other info that might help us debug this: 3 locks held by syslogd/2908: #0: (&u->readlock){+.+.+.}, at: [<c0000000004556f8>] .unix_dgram_recvmsg+0x70/0x338 #1: (&nc->lock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000001411bc>] .kfree+0x1f0/0x324 #2: (&parent->list_lock){-.-...}, at: [<c000000000140f64>] .__drain_alien_cache+0x50/0xb8 stack backtrace: Call Trace: [c0000000e8ccafc0] [c0000000000101e4] .show_stack+0x70/0x184 (unreliable) [c0000000e8ccb070] [c0000000000afebc] .validate_chain+0x6ec/0xf58 [c0000000e8ccb180] [c0000000000b0ff0] .__lock_acquire+0x8c8/0x974 [c0000000e8ccb280] [c0000000000b2290] .lock_acquire+0x140/0x18c [c0000000e8ccb350] [c000000000468df0] ._spin_lock+0x48/0x70 [c0000000e8ccb3e0] [c0000000001407f4] .kmem_cache_free+0x118/0x2d4 [c0000000e8ccb4a0] [c000000000140b90] .free_block+0x130/0x1a8 [c0000000e8ccb540] [c000000000140f94] .__drain_alien_cache+0x80/0xb8 [c0000000e8ccb5e0] [c0000000001411e0] .kfree+0x214/0x324 [c0000000e8ccb6a0] [c0000000003ca860] .skb_release_data+0xe8/0x104 [c0000000e8ccb730] [c0000000003ca2ec] .__kfree_skb+0x20/0xd4 [c0000000e8ccb7b0] [c0000000003cf2c8] .skb_free_datagram+0x1c/0x5c [c0000000e8ccb830] [c00000000045597c] .unix_dgram_recvmsg+0x2f4/0x338 [c0000000e8ccb920] [c0000000003c0f14] .sock_recvmsg+0xf4/0x13c [c0000000e8ccbb30] [c0000000003c28ec] .SyS_recvfrom+0xb4/0x130 [c0000000e8ccbcb0] [c0000000003bfb78] .sys_recv+0x18/0x2c [c0000000e8ccbd20] [c0000000003ed388] .compat_sys_recv+0x14/0x28 [c0000000e8ccbd90] [c0000000003ee1bc] .compat_sys_socketcall+0x178/0x220 [c0000000e8ccbe30] [c0000000000085d4] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40 This patch fixes the issue by setting up lockdep annotations during CPU hotplug. Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-11-23 22:01:15 +02:00
SLAB: Fix lockdep annotations for CPU hotplug As reported by Paul McKenney: I am seeing some lockdep complaints in rcutorture runs that include frequent CPU-hotplug operations. The tests are otherwise successful. My first thought was to send a patch that gave each array_cache structure's ->lock field its own struct lock_class_key, but you already have a init_lock_keys() that seems to be intended to deal with this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ============================================= [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] 2.6.32-rc4-autokern1 #1 --------------------------------------------- syslogd/2908 is trying to acquire lock: (&nc->lock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000001407f4>] .kmem_cache_free+0x118/0x2d4 but task is already holding lock: (&nc->lock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000001411bc>] .kfree+0x1f0/0x324 other info that might help us debug this: 3 locks held by syslogd/2908: #0: (&u->readlock){+.+.+.}, at: [<c0000000004556f8>] .unix_dgram_recvmsg+0x70/0x338 #1: (&nc->lock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000001411bc>] .kfree+0x1f0/0x324 #2: (&parent->list_lock){-.-...}, at: [<c000000000140f64>] .__drain_alien_cache+0x50/0xb8 stack backtrace: Call Trace: [c0000000e8ccafc0] [c0000000000101e4] .show_stack+0x70/0x184 (unreliable) [c0000000e8ccb070] [c0000000000afebc] .validate_chain+0x6ec/0xf58 [c0000000e8ccb180] [c0000000000b0ff0] .__lock_acquire+0x8c8/0x974 [c0000000e8ccb280] [c0000000000b2290] .lock_acquire+0x140/0x18c [c0000000e8ccb350] [c000000000468df0] ._spin_lock+0x48/0x70 [c0000000e8ccb3e0] [c0000000001407f4] .kmem_cache_free+0x118/0x2d4 [c0000000e8ccb4a0] [c000000000140b90] .free_block+0x130/0x1a8 [c0000000e8ccb540] [c000000000140f94] .__drain_alien_cache+0x80/0xb8 [c0000000e8ccb5e0] [c0000000001411e0] .kfree+0x214/0x324 [c0000000e8ccb6a0] [c0000000003ca860] .skb_release_data+0xe8/0x104 [c0000000e8ccb730] [c0000000003ca2ec] .__kfree_skb+0x20/0xd4 [c0000000e8ccb7b0] [c0000000003cf2c8] .skb_free_datagram+0x1c/0x5c [c0000000e8ccb830] [c00000000045597c] .unix_dgram_recvmsg+0x2f4/0x338 [c0000000e8ccb920] [c0000000003c0f14] .sock_recvmsg+0xf4/0x13c [c0000000e8ccbb30] [c0000000003c28ec] .SyS_recvfrom+0xb4/0x130 [c0000000e8ccbcb0] [c0000000003bfb78] .sys_recv+0x18/0x2c [c0000000e8ccbd20] [c0000000003ed388] .compat_sys_recv+0x14/0x28 [c0000000e8ccbd90] [c0000000003ee1bc] .compat_sys_socketcall+0x178/0x220 [c0000000e8ccbe30] [c0000000000085d4] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40 This patch fixes the issue by setting up lockdep annotations during CPU hotplug. Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-11-23 22:01:15 +02:00
SLAB: Fix lockdep annotations for CPU hotplug As reported by Paul McKenney: I am seeing some lockdep complaints in rcutorture runs that include frequent CPU-hotplug operations. The tests are otherwise successful. My first thought was to send a patch that gave each array_cache structure's ->lock field its own struct lock_class_key, but you already have a init_lock_keys() that seems to be intended to deal with this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ============================================= [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] 2.6.32-rc4-autokern1 #1 --------------------------------------------- syslogd/2908 is trying to acquire lock: (&nc->lock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000001407f4>] .kmem_cache_free+0x118/0x2d4 but task is already holding lock: (&nc->lock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000001411bc>] .kfree+0x1f0/0x324 other info that might help us debug this: 3 locks held by syslogd/2908: #0: (&u->readlock){+.+.+.}, at: [<c0000000004556f8>] .unix_dgram_recvmsg+0x70/0x338 #1: (&nc->lock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000001411bc>] .kfree+0x1f0/0x324 #2: (&parent->list_lock){-.-...}, at: [<c000000000140f64>] .__drain_alien_cache+0x50/0xb8 stack backtrace: Call Trace: [c0000000e8ccafc0] [c0000000000101e4] .show_stack+0x70/0x184 (unreliable) [c0000000e8ccb070] [c0000000000afebc] .validate_chain+0x6ec/0xf58 [c0000000e8ccb180] [c0000000000b0ff0] .__lock_acquire+0x8c8/0x974 [c0000000e8ccb280] [c0000000000b2290] .lock_acquire+0x140/0x18c [c0000000e8ccb350] [c000000000468df0] ._spin_lock+0x48/0x70 [c0000000e8ccb3e0] [c0000000001407f4] .kmem_cache_free+0x118/0x2d4 [c0000000e8ccb4a0] [c000000000140b90] .free_block+0x130/0x1a8 [c0000000e8ccb540] [c000000000140f94] .__drain_alien_cache+0x80/0xb8 [c0000000e8ccb5e0] [c0000000001411e0] .kfree+0x214/0x324 [c0000000e8ccb6a0] [c0000000003ca860] .skb_release_data+0xe8/0x104 [c0000000e8ccb730] [c0000000003ca2ec] .__kfree_skb+0x20/0xd4 [c0000000e8ccb7b0] [c0000000003cf2c8] .skb_free_datagram+0x1c/0x5c [c0000000e8ccb830] [c00000000045597c] .unix_dgram_recvmsg+0x2f4/0x338 [c0000000e8ccb920] [c0000000003c0f14] .sock_recvmsg+0xf4/0x13c [c0000000e8ccbb30] [c0000000003c28ec] .SyS_recvfrom+0xb4/0x130 [c0000000e8ccbcb0] [c0000000003bfb78] .sys_recv+0x18/0x2c [c0000000e8ccbd20] [c0000000003ed388] .compat_sys_recv+0x14/0x28 [c0000000e8ccbd90] [c0000000003ee1bc] .compat_sys_socketcall+0x178/0x220 [c0000000e8ccbe30] [c0000000000085d4] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40 This patch fixes the issue by setting up lockdep annotations during CPU hotplug. Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-11-23 22:01:15 +02:00
SLAB: Fix lockdep annotations for CPU hotplug As reported by Paul McKenney: I am seeing some lockdep complaints in rcutorture runs that include frequent CPU-hotplug operations. The tests are otherwise successful. My first thought was to send a patch that gave each array_cache structure's ->lock field its own struct lock_class_key, but you already have a init_lock_keys() that seems to be intended to deal with this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ============================================= [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] 2.6.32-rc4-autokern1 #1 --------------------------------------------- syslogd/2908 is trying to acquire lock: (&nc->lock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000001407f4>] .kmem_cache_free+0x118/0x2d4 but task is already holding lock: (&nc->lock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000001411bc>] .kfree+0x1f0/0x324 other info that might help us debug this: 3 locks held by syslogd/2908: #0: (&u->readlock){+.+.+.}, at: [<c0000000004556f8>] .unix_dgram_recvmsg+0x70/0x338 #1: (&nc->lock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000001411bc>] .kfree+0x1f0/0x324 #2: (&parent->list_lock){-.-...}, at: [<c000000000140f64>] .__drain_alien_cache+0x50/0xb8 stack backtrace: Call Trace: [c0000000e8ccafc0] [c0000000000101e4] .show_stack+0x70/0x184 (unreliable) [c0000000e8ccb070] [c0000000000afebc] .validate_chain+0x6ec/0xf58 [c0000000e8ccb180] [c0000000000b0ff0] .__lock_acquire+0x8c8/0x974 [c0000000e8ccb280] [c0000000000b2290] .lock_acquire+0x140/0x18c [c0000000e8ccb350] [c000000000468df0] ._spin_lock+0x48/0x70 [c0000000e8ccb3e0] [c0000000001407f4] .kmem_cache_free+0x118/0x2d4 [c0000000e8ccb4a0] [c000000000140b90] .free_block+0x130/0x1a8 [c0000000e8ccb540] [c000000000140f94] .__drain_alien_cache+0x80/0xb8 [c0000000e8ccb5e0] [c0000000001411e0] .kfree+0x214/0x324 [c0000000e8ccb6a0] [c0000000003ca860] .skb_release_data+0xe8/0x104 [c0000000e8ccb730] [c0000000003ca2ec] .__kfree_skb+0x20/0xd4 [c0000000e8ccb7b0] [c0000000003cf2c8] .skb_free_datagram+0x1c/0x5c [c0000000e8ccb830] [c00000000045597c] .unix_dgram_recvmsg+0x2f4/0x338 [c0000000e8ccb920] [c0000000003c0f14] .sock_recvmsg+0xf4/0x13c [c0000000e8ccbb30] [c0000000003c28ec] .SyS_recvfrom+0xb4/0x130 [c0000000e8ccbcb0] [c0000000003bfb78] .sys_recv+0x18/0x2c [c0000000e8ccbd20] [c0000000003ed388] .compat_sys_recv+0x14/0x28 [c0000000e8ccbd90] [c0000000003ee1bc] .compat_sys_socketcall+0x178/0x220 [c0000000e8ccbe30] [c0000000000085d4] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40 This patch fixes the issue by setting up lockdep annotations during CPU hotplug. Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-11-23 22:01:15 +02:00
[PATCH] slab: Node rotor for freeing alien caches and remote per cpu pages. The cache reaper currently tries to free all alien caches and all remote per cpu pages in each pass of cache_reap. For a machines with large number of nodes (such as Altix) this may lead to sporadic delays of around ~10ms. Interrupts are disabled while reclaiming creating unacceptable delays. This patch changes that behavior by adding a per cpu reap_node variable. Instead of attempting to free all caches, we free only one alien cache and the per cpu pages from one remote node. That reduces the time spend in cache_reap. However, doing so will lengthen the time it takes to completely drain all remote per cpu pagesets and all alien caches. The time needed will grow with the number of nodes in the system. All caches are drained when they overflow their respective capacity. So the drawback here is only that a bit of memory may be wasted for awhile longer. Details: 1. Rename drain_remote_pages to drain_node_pages to allow the specification of the node to drain of pcp pages. 2. Add additional functions init_reap_node, next_reap_node for NUMA that manage a per cpu reap_node counter. 3. Add a reap_alien function that reaps only from the current reap_node. For us this seems to be a critical issue. Holdoffs of an average of ~7ms cause some HPC benchmarks to slow down significantly. F.e. NAS parallel slows down dramatically. NAS parallel has a 12-16 seconds runtime w/o rotor compared to 5.8 secs with the rotor patches. It gets down to 5.05 secs with the additional interrupt holdoff reductions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-09 17:33:54 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: Node rotor for freeing alien caches and remote per cpu pages. The cache reaper currently tries to free all alien caches and all remote per cpu pages in each pass of cache_reap. For a machines with large number of nodes (such as Altix) this may lead to sporadic delays of around ~10ms. Interrupts are disabled while reclaiming creating unacceptable delays. This patch changes that behavior by adding a per cpu reap_node variable. Instead of attempting to free all caches, we free only one alien cache and the per cpu pages from one remote node. That reduces the time spend in cache_reap. However, doing so will lengthen the time it takes to completely drain all remote per cpu pagesets and all alien caches. The time needed will grow with the number of nodes in the system. All caches are drained when they overflow their respective capacity. So the drawback here is only that a bit of memory may be wasted for awhile longer. Details: 1. Rename drain_remote_pages to drain_node_pages to allow the specification of the node to drain of pcp pages. 2. Add additional functions init_reap_node, next_reap_node for NUMA that manage a per cpu reap_node counter. 3. Add a reap_alien function that reaps only from the current reap_node. For us this seems to be a critical issue. Holdoffs of an average of ~7ms cause some HPC benchmarks to slow down significantly. F.e. NAS parallel slows down dramatically. NAS parallel has a 12-16 seconds runtime w/o rotor compared to 5.8 secs with the rotor patches. It gets down to 5.05 secs with the additional interrupt holdoff reductions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-09 17:33:54 -08:00
numa: slab: use numa_mem_id() for slab local memory node Example usage of generic "numa_mem_id()": The mainline slab code, since ~ 2.6.19, does not handle memoryless nodes well. Specifically, the "fast path"--____cache_alloc()--will never succeed as slab doesn't cache offnode object on the per cpu queues, and for memoryless nodes, all memory will be "off node" relative to numa_node_id(). This adds significant overhead to all kmem cache allocations, incurring a significant regression relative to earlier kernels [from before slab.c was reorganized]. This patch uses the generic topology function "numa_mem_id()" to return the "effective local memory node" for the calling context. This is the first node in the local node's generic fallback zonelist-- the same node that "local" mempolicy-based allocations would use. This lets slab cache these "local" allocations and avoid fallback/refill on every allocation. N.B.: Slab will need to handle node and memory hotplug events that could change the value returned by numa_mem_id() for any given node if recent changes to address memory hotplug don't already address this. E.g., flush all per cpu slab queues before rebuilding the zonelists while the "machine" is held in the stopped state. Performance impact on "hackbench 400 process 200" 2.6.34-rc3-mmotm-100405-1609 no-patch this-patch ia64 no memoryless nodes [avg of 10]: 11.713 11.637 ~0.65 diff ia64 cpus all on memless nodes [10]: 228.259 26.484 ~8.6x speedup The slowdown of the patched kernel from ~12 sec to ~28 seconds when configured with memoryless nodes is the result of all cpus allocating from a single node's mm pagepool. The cache lines of the single node are distributed/interleaved over the memory of the real physical nodes, but the zone lock, list heads, ... of the single node with memory still each live in a single cache line that is accessed from all processors. x86_64 [8x6 AMD] [avg of 40]: 2.883 2.845 Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-26 14:45:03 -07:00
[PATCH] slab: Node rotor for freeing alien caches and remote per cpu pages. The cache reaper currently tries to free all alien caches and all remote per cpu pages in each pass of cache_reap. For a machines with large number of nodes (such as Altix) this may lead to sporadic delays of around ~10ms. Interrupts are disabled while reclaiming creating unacceptable delays. This patch changes that behavior by adding a per cpu reap_node variable. Instead of attempting to free all caches, we free only one alien cache and the per cpu pages from one remote node. That reduces the time spend in cache_reap. However, doing so will lengthen the time it takes to completely drain all remote per cpu pagesets and all alien caches. The time needed will grow with the number of nodes in the system. All caches are drained when they overflow their respective capacity. So the drawback here is only that a bit of memory may be wasted for awhile longer. Details: 1. Rename drain_remote_pages to drain_node_pages to allow the specification of the node to drain of pcp pages. 2. Add additional functions init_reap_node, next_reap_node for NUMA that manage a per cpu reap_node counter. 3. Add a reap_alien function that reaps only from the current reap_node. For us this seems to be a critical issue. Holdoffs of an average of ~7ms cause some HPC benchmarks to slow down significantly. F.e. NAS parallel slows down dramatically. NAS parallel has a 12-16 seconds runtime w/o rotor compared to 5.8 secs with the rotor patches. It gets down to 5.05 secs with the additional interrupt holdoff reductions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-09 17:33:54 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: Node rotor for freeing alien caches and remote per cpu pages. The cache reaper currently tries to free all alien caches and all remote per cpu pages in each pass of cache_reap. For a machines with large number of nodes (such as Altix) this may lead to sporadic delays of around ~10ms. Interrupts are disabled while reclaiming creating unacceptable delays. This patch changes that behavior by adding a per cpu reap_node variable. Instead of attempting to free all caches, we free only one alien cache and the per cpu pages from one remote node. That reduces the time spend in cache_reap. However, doing so will lengthen the time it takes to completely drain all remote per cpu pagesets and all alien caches. The time needed will grow with the number of nodes in the system. All caches are drained when they overflow their respective capacity. So the drawback here is only that a bit of memory may be wasted for awhile longer. Details: 1. Rename drain_remote_pages to drain_node_pages to allow the specification of the node to drain of pcp pages. 2. Add additional functions init_reap_node, next_reap_node for NUMA that manage a per cpu reap_node counter. 3. Add a reap_alien function that reaps only from the current reap_node. For us this seems to be a critical issue. Holdoffs of an average of ~7ms cause some HPC benchmarks to slow down significantly. F.e. NAS parallel slows down dramatically. NAS parallel has a 12-16 seconds runtime w/o rotor compared to 5.8 secs with the rotor patches. It gets down to 5.05 secs with the additional interrupt holdoff reductions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-09 17:33:54 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: Node rotor for freeing alien caches and remote per cpu pages. The cache reaper currently tries to free all alien caches and all remote per cpu pages in each pass of cache_reap. For a machines with large number of nodes (such as Altix) this may lead to sporadic delays of around ~10ms. Interrupts are disabled while reclaiming creating unacceptable delays. This patch changes that behavior by adding a per cpu reap_node variable. Instead of attempting to free all caches, we free only one alien cache and the per cpu pages from one remote node. That reduces the time spend in cache_reap. However, doing so will lengthen the time it takes to completely drain all remote per cpu pagesets and all alien caches. The time needed will grow with the number of nodes in the system. All caches are drained when they overflow their respective capacity. So the drawback here is only that a bit of memory may be wasted for awhile longer. Details: 1. Rename drain_remote_pages to drain_node_pages to allow the specification of the node to drain of pcp pages. 2. Add additional functions init_reap_node, next_reap_node for NUMA that manage a per cpu reap_node counter. 3. Add a reap_alien function that reaps only from the current reap_node. For us this seems to be a critical issue. Holdoffs of an average of ~7ms cause some HPC benchmarks to slow down significantly. F.e. NAS parallel slows down dramatically. NAS parallel has a 12-16 seconds runtime w/o rotor compared to 5.8 secs with the rotor patches. It gets down to 5.05 secs with the additional interrupt holdoff reductions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-09 17:33:54 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: Node rotor for freeing alien caches and remote per cpu pages. The cache reaper currently tries to free all alien caches and all remote per cpu pages in each pass of cache_reap. For a machines with large number of nodes (such as Altix) this may lead to sporadic delays of around ~10ms. Interrupts are disabled while reclaiming creating unacceptable delays. This patch changes that behavior by adding a per cpu reap_node variable. Instead of attempting to free all caches, we free only one alien cache and the per cpu pages from one remote node. That reduces the time spend in cache_reap. However, doing so will lengthen the time it takes to completely drain all remote per cpu pagesets and all alien caches. The time needed will grow with the number of nodes in the system. All caches are drained when they overflow their respective capacity. So the drawback here is only that a bit of memory may be wasted for awhile longer. Details: 1. Rename drain_remote_pages to drain_node_pages to allow the specification of the node to drain of pcp pages. 2. Add additional functions init_reap_node, next_reap_node for NUMA that manage a per cpu reap_node counter. 3. Add a reap_alien function that reaps only from the current reap_node. For us this seems to be a critical issue. Holdoffs of an average of ~7ms cause some HPC benchmarks to slow down significantly. F.e. NAS parallel slows down dramatically. NAS parallel has a 12-16 seconds runtime w/o rotor compared to 5.8 secs with the rotor patches. It gets down to 5.05 secs with the additional interrupt holdoff reductions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-09 17:33:54 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: Node rotor for freeing alien caches and remote per cpu pages. The cache reaper currently tries to free all alien caches and all remote per cpu pages in each pass of cache_reap. For a machines with large number of nodes (such as Altix) this may lead to sporadic delays of around ~10ms. Interrupts are disabled while reclaiming creating unacceptable delays. This patch changes that behavior by adding a per cpu reap_node variable. Instead of attempting to free all caches, we free only one alien cache and the per cpu pages from one remote node. That reduces the time spend in cache_reap. However, doing so will lengthen the time it takes to completely drain all remote per cpu pagesets and all alien caches. The time needed will grow with the number of nodes in the system. All caches are drained when they overflow their respective capacity. So the drawback here is only that a bit of memory may be wasted for awhile longer. Details: 1. Rename drain_remote_pages to drain_node_pages to allow the specification of the node to drain of pcp pages. 2. Add additional functions init_reap_node, next_reap_node for NUMA that manage a per cpu reap_node counter. 3. Add a reap_alien function that reaps only from the current reap_node. For us this seems to be a critical issue. Holdoffs of an average of ~7ms cause some HPC benchmarks to slow down significantly. F.e. NAS parallel slows down dramatically. NAS parallel has a 12-16 seconds runtime w/o rotor compared to 5.8 secs with the rotor patches. It gets down to 5.05 secs with the additional interrupt holdoff reductions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-09 17:33:54 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: Node rotor for freeing alien caches and remote per cpu pages. The cache reaper currently tries to free all alien caches and all remote per cpu pages in each pass of cache_reap. For a machines with large number of nodes (such as Altix) this may lead to sporadic delays of around ~10ms. Interrupts are disabled while reclaiming creating unacceptable delays. This patch changes that behavior by adding a per cpu reap_node variable. Instead of attempting to free all caches, we free only one alien cache and the per cpu pages from one remote node. That reduces the time spend in cache_reap. However, doing so will lengthen the time it takes to completely drain all remote per cpu pagesets and all alien caches. The time needed will grow with the number of nodes in the system. All caches are drained when they overflow their respective capacity. So the drawback here is only that a bit of memory may be wasted for awhile longer. Details: 1. Rename drain_remote_pages to drain_node_pages to allow the specification of the node to drain of pcp pages. 2. Add additional functions init_reap_node, next_reap_node for NUMA that manage a per cpu reap_node counter. 3. Add a reap_alien function that reaps only from the current reap_node. For us this seems to be a critical issue. Holdoffs of an average of ~7ms cause some HPC benchmarks to slow down significantly. F.e. NAS parallel slows down dramatically. NAS parallel has a 12-16 seconds runtime w/o rotor compared to 5.8 secs with the rotor patches. It gets down to 5.05 secs with the additional interrupt holdoff reductions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-09 17:33:54 -08:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some changes to allocator boostrap code. Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar: We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code: [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000 [ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c [ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001 [ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002 [ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc [ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0 [ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003 [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c [ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-10 19:40:04 +03:00
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some changes to allocator boostrap code. Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar: We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code: [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000 [ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c [ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001 [ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002 [ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc [ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0 [ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003 [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c [ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-10 19:40:04 +03:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
[PATCH] GFP_THISNODE for the slab allocator This patch insures that the slab node lists in the NUMA case only contain slabs that belong to that specific node. All slab allocations use GFP_THISNODE when calling into the page allocator. If an allocation fails then we fall back in the slab allocator according to the zonelists appropriate for a certain context. This allows a replication of the behavior of alloc_pages and alloc_pages node in the slab layer. Currently allocations requested from the page allocator may be redirected via cpusets to other nodes. This results in remote pages on nodelists and that in turn results in interrupt latency issues during cache draining. Plus the slab is handing out memory as local when it is really remote. Fallback for slab memory allocations will occur within the slab allocator and not in the page allocator. This is necessary in order to be able to use the existing pools of objects on the nodes that we fall back to before adding more pages to a slab. The fallback function insures that the nodes we fall back to obey cpuset restrictions of the current context. We do not allocate objects from outside of the current cpuset context like before. Note that the implementation of locality constraints within the slab allocator requires importing logic from the page allocator. This is a mischmash that is not that great. Other allocators (uncached allocator, vmalloc, huge pages) face similar problems and have similar minimal reimplementations of the basic fallback logic of the page allocator. There is another way of implementing a slab by avoiding per node lists (see modular slab) but this wont work within the existing slab. V1->V2: - Use NUMA_BUILD to avoid #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA - Exploit GFP_THISNODE being 0 in the NON_NUMA case to avoid another #ifdef [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 01:50:08 -07:00
[PATCH] GFP_THISNODE for the slab allocator This patch insures that the slab node lists in the NUMA case only contain slabs that belong to that specific node. All slab allocations use GFP_THISNODE when calling into the page allocator. If an allocation fails then we fall back in the slab allocator according to the zonelists appropriate for a certain context. This allows a replication of the behavior of alloc_pages and alloc_pages node in the slab layer. Currently allocations requested from the page allocator may be redirected via cpusets to other nodes. This results in remote pages on nodelists and that in turn results in interrupt latency issues during cache draining. Plus the slab is handing out memory as local when it is really remote. Fallback for slab memory allocations will occur within the slab allocator and not in the page allocator. This is necessary in order to be able to use the existing pools of objects on the nodes that we fall back to before adding more pages to a slab. The fallback function insures that the nodes we fall back to obey cpuset restrictions of the current context. We do not allocate objects from outside of the current cpuset context like before. Note that the implementation of locality constraints within the slab allocator requires importing logic from the page allocator. This is a mischmash that is not that great. Other allocators (uncached allocator, vmalloc, huge pages) face similar problems and have similar minimal reimplementations of the basic fallback logic of the page allocator. There is another way of implementing a slab by avoiding per node lists (see modular slab) but this wont work within the existing slab. V1->V2: - Use NUMA_BUILD to avoid #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA - Exploit GFP_THISNODE being 0 in the NON_NUMA case to avoid another #ifdef [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 01:50:08 -07:00
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some changes to allocator boostrap code. Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar: We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code: [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000 [ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c [ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001 [ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002 [ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc [ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0 [ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003 [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c [ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-10 19:40:04 +03:00
[PATCH] GFP_THISNODE for the slab allocator This patch insures that the slab node lists in the NUMA case only contain slabs that belong to that specific node. All slab allocations use GFP_THISNODE when calling into the page allocator. If an allocation fails then we fall back in the slab allocator according to the zonelists appropriate for a certain context. This allows a replication of the behavior of alloc_pages and alloc_pages node in the slab layer. Currently allocations requested from the page allocator may be redirected via cpusets to other nodes. This results in remote pages on nodelists and that in turn results in interrupt latency issues during cache draining. Plus the slab is handing out memory as local when it is really remote. Fallback for slab memory allocations will occur within the slab allocator and not in the page allocator. This is necessary in order to be able to use the existing pools of objects on the nodes that we fall back to before adding more pages to a slab. The fallback function insures that the nodes we fall back to obey cpuset restrictions of the current context. We do not allocate objects from outside of the current cpuset context like before. Note that the implementation of locality constraints within the slab allocator requires importing logic from the page allocator. This is a mischmash that is not that great. Other allocators (uncached allocator, vmalloc, huge pages) face similar problems and have similar minimal reimplementations of the basic fallback logic of the page allocator. There is another way of implementing a slab by avoiding per node lists (see modular slab) but this wont work within the existing slab. V1->V2: - Use NUMA_BUILD to avoid #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA - Exploit GFP_THISNODE being 0 in the NON_NUMA case to avoid another #ifdef [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 01:50:08 -07:00
[PATCH] GFP_THISNODE for the slab allocator This patch insures that the slab node lists in the NUMA case only contain slabs that belong to that specific node. All slab allocations use GFP_THISNODE when calling into the page allocator. If an allocation fails then we fall back in the slab allocator according to the zonelists appropriate for a certain context. This allows a replication of the behavior of alloc_pages and alloc_pages node in the slab layer. Currently allocations requested from the page allocator may be redirected via cpusets to other nodes. This results in remote pages on nodelists and that in turn results in interrupt latency issues during cache draining. Plus the slab is handing out memory as local when it is really remote. Fallback for slab memory allocations will occur within the slab allocator and not in the page allocator. This is necessary in order to be able to use the existing pools of objects on the nodes that we fall back to before adding more pages to a slab. The fallback function insures that the nodes we fall back to obey cpuset restrictions of the current context. We do not allocate objects from outside of the current cpuset context like before. Note that the implementation of locality constraints within the slab allocator requires importing logic from the page allocator. This is a mischmash that is not that great. Other allocators (uncached allocator, vmalloc, huge pages) face similar problems and have similar minimal reimplementations of the basic fallback logic of the page allocator. There is another way of implementing a slab by avoiding per node lists (see modular slab) but this wont work within the existing slab. V1->V2: - Use NUMA_BUILD to avoid #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA - Exploit GFP_THISNODE being 0 in the NON_NUMA case to avoid another #ifdef [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 01:50:08 -07:00
[PATCH] NUMA policies in the slab allocator V2 This patch fixes a regression in 2.6.14 against 2.6.13 that causes an imbalance in memory allocation during bootup. The slab allocator in 2.6.13 is not numa aware and simply calls alloc_pages(). This means that memory policies may control the behavior of alloc_pages(). During bootup the memory policy is set to MPOL_INTERLEAVE resulting in the spreading out of allocations during bootup over all available nodes. The slab allocator in 2.6.13 has only a single list of slab pages. As a result the per cpu slab cache and the spinlock controlled page lists may contain slab entries from off node memory. The slab allocator in 2.6.13 makes no effort to discern the locality of an entry on its lists. The NUMA aware slab allocator in 2.6.14 controls locality of the slab pages explicitly by calling alloc_pages_node(). The NUMA slab allocator manages slab entries by having lists of available slab pages for each node. The per cpu slab cache can only contain slab entries associated with the node local to the processor. This guarantees that the default allocation mode of the slab allocator always assigns local memory if available. Setting MPOL_INTERLEAVE as a default policy during bootup has no effect anymore. In 2.6.14 all node unspecific slab allocations are performed on the boot processor. This means that most of key data structures are allocated on one node. Most processors will have to refer to these structures making the boot node a potential bottleneck. This may reduce performance and cause unnecessary memory pressure on the boot node. This patch implements NUMA policies in the slab layer. There is the need of explicit application of NUMA memory policies by the slab allcator itself since the NUMA slab allocator does no longer let the page_allocator control locality. The check for policies is made directly at the beginning of __cache_alloc using current->mempolicy. The memory policy is already frequently checked by the page allocator (alloc_page_vma() and alloc_page_current()). So it is highly likely that the cacheline is present. For MPOL_INTERLEAVE kmalloc() will spread out each request to one node after another so that an equal distribution of allocations can be obtained during bootup. It is not possible to push the policy check to lower layers of the NUMA slab allocator since the per cpu caches are now only containing slab entries from the current node. If the policy says that the local node is not to be preferred or forbidden then there is no point in checking the slab cache or local list of slab pages. The allocation better be directed immediately to the lists containing slab entries for the allowed set of nodes. This way of applying policy also fixes another strange behavior in 2.6.13. alloc_pages() is controlled by the memory allocation policy of the current process. It could therefore be that one process is running with MPOL_INTERLEAVE and would f.e. obtain a new page following that policy since no slab entries are in the lists anymore. A page can typically be used for multiple slab entries but lets say that the current process is only using one. The other entries are then added to the slab lists. These are now non local entries in the slab lists despite of the possible availability of local pages that would provide faster access and increase the performance of the application. Another process without MPOL_INTERLEAVE may now run and expect a local slab entry from kmalloc(). However, there are still these free slab entries from the off node page obtained from the other process via MPOL_INTERLEAVE in the cache. The process will then get an off node slab entry although other slab entries may be available that are local to that process. This means that the policy if one process may contaminate the locality of the slab caches for other processes. This patch in effect insures that a per process policy is followed for the allocation of slab entries and that there cannot be a memory policy influence from one process to another. A process with default policy will always get a local slab entry if one is available. And the process using memory policies will get its memory arranged as requested. Off-node slab allocation will require the use of spinlocks and will make the use of per cpu caches not possible. A process using memory policies to redirect allocations offnode will have to cope with additional lock overhead in addition to the latency added by the need to access a remote slab entry. Changes V1->V2 - Remove #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA by moving forward declaration into prior #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA section. - Give the function determining the node number to use a saner name. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 17:42:36 -08:00
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some changes to allocator boostrap code. Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar: We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code: [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000 [ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c [ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001 [ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002 [ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc [ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0 [ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003 [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c [ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-10 19:40:04 +03:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some changes to allocator boostrap code. Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar: We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code: [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000 [ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c [ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001 [ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002 [ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc [ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0 [ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003 [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c [ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-10 19:40:04 +03:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] slab: Node rotor for freeing alien caches and remote per cpu pages. The cache reaper currently tries to free all alien caches and all remote per cpu pages in each pass of cache_reap. For a machines with large number of nodes (such as Altix) this may lead to sporadic delays of around ~10ms. Interrupts are disabled while reclaiming creating unacceptable delays. This patch changes that behavior by adding a per cpu reap_node variable. Instead of attempting to free all caches, we free only one alien cache and the per cpu pages from one remote node. That reduces the time spend in cache_reap. However, doing so will lengthen the time it takes to completely drain all remote per cpu pagesets and all alien caches. The time needed will grow with the number of nodes in the system. All caches are drained when they overflow their respective capacity. So the drawback here is only that a bit of memory may be wasted for awhile longer. Details: 1. Rename drain_remote_pages to drain_node_pages to allow the specification of the node to drain of pcp pages. 2. Add additional functions init_reap_node, next_reap_node for NUMA that manage a per cpu reap_node counter. 3. Add a reap_alien function that reaps only from the current reap_node. For us this seems to be a critical issue. Holdoffs of an average of ~7ms cause some HPC benchmarks to slow down significantly. F.e. NAS parallel slows down dramatically. NAS parallel has a 12-16 seconds runtime w/o rotor compared to 5.8 secs with the rotor patches. It gets down to 5.05 secs with the additional interrupt holdoff reductions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-09 17:33:54 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: Node rotor for freeing alien caches and remote per cpu pages. The cache reaper currently tries to free all alien caches and all remote per cpu pages in each pass of cache_reap. For a machines with large number of nodes (such as Altix) this may lead to sporadic delays of around ~10ms. Interrupts are disabled while reclaiming creating unacceptable delays. This patch changes that behavior by adding a per cpu reap_node variable. Instead of attempting to free all caches, we free only one alien cache and the per cpu pages from one remote node. That reduces the time spend in cache_reap. However, doing so will lengthen the time it takes to completely drain all remote per cpu pagesets and all alien caches. The time needed will grow with the number of nodes in the system. All caches are drained when they overflow their respective capacity. So the drawback here is only that a bit of memory may be wasted for awhile longer. Details: 1. Rename drain_remote_pages to drain_node_pages to allow the specification of the node to drain of pcp pages. 2. Add additional functions init_reap_node, next_reap_node for NUMA that manage a per cpu reap_node counter. 3. Add a reap_alien function that reaps only from the current reap_node. For us this seems to be a critical issue. Holdoffs of an average of ~7ms cause some HPC benchmarks to slow down significantly. F.e. NAS parallel slows down dramatically. NAS parallel has a 12-16 seconds runtime w/o rotor compared to 5.8 secs with the rotor patches. It gets down to 5.05 secs with the additional interrupt holdoff reductions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-09 17:33:54 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: Node rotor for freeing alien caches and remote per cpu pages. The cache reaper currently tries to free all alien caches and all remote per cpu pages in each pass of cache_reap. For a machines with large number of nodes (such as Altix) this may lead to sporadic delays of around ~10ms. Interrupts are disabled while reclaiming creating unacceptable delays. This patch changes that behavior by adding a per cpu reap_node variable. Instead of attempting to free all caches, we free only one alien cache and the per cpu pages from one remote node. That reduces the time spend in cache_reap. However, doing so will lengthen the time it takes to completely drain all remote per cpu pagesets and all alien caches. The time needed will grow with the number of nodes in the system. All caches are drained when they overflow their respective capacity. So the drawback here is only that a bit of memory may be wasted for awhile longer. Details: 1. Rename drain_remote_pages to drain_node_pages to allow the specification of the node to drain of pcp pages. 2. Add additional functions init_reap_node, next_reap_node for NUMA that manage a per cpu reap_node counter. 3. Add a reap_alien function that reaps only from the current reap_node. For us this seems to be a critical issue. Holdoffs of an average of ~7ms cause some HPC benchmarks to slow down significantly. F.e. NAS parallel slows down dramatically. NAS parallel has a 12-16 seconds runtime w/o rotor compared to 5.8 secs with the rotor patches. It gets down to 5.05 secs with the additional interrupt holdoff reductions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-09 17:33:54 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: Node rotor for freeing alien caches and remote per cpu pages. The cache reaper currently tries to free all alien caches and all remote per cpu pages in each pass of cache_reap. For a machines with large number of nodes (such as Altix) this may lead to sporadic delays of around ~10ms. Interrupts are disabled while reclaiming creating unacceptable delays. This patch changes that behavior by adding a per cpu reap_node variable. Instead of attempting to free all caches, we free only one alien cache and the per cpu pages from one remote node. That reduces the time spend in cache_reap. However, doing so will lengthen the time it takes to completely drain all remote per cpu pagesets and all alien caches. The time needed will grow with the number of nodes in the system. All caches are drained when they overflow their respective capacity. So the drawback here is only that a bit of memory may be wasted for awhile longer. Details: 1. Rename drain_remote_pages to drain_node_pages to allow the specification of the node to drain of pcp pages. 2. Add additional functions init_reap_node, next_reap_node for NUMA that manage a per cpu reap_node counter. 3. Add a reap_alien function that reaps only from the current reap_node. For us this seems to be a critical issue. Holdoffs of an average of ~7ms cause some HPC benchmarks to slow down significantly. F.e. NAS parallel slows down dramatically. NAS parallel has a 12-16 seconds runtime w/o rotor compared to 5.8 secs with the rotor patches. It gets down to 5.05 secs with the additional interrupt holdoff reductions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-09 17:33:54 -08:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] NUMA slab locking fixes: fix cpu down and up locking This fixes locking and bugs in cpu_down and cpu_up paths of the NUMA slab allocator. Sonny Rao <sonny@burdell.org> reported problems sometime back on POWER5 boxes, when the last cpu on the nodes were being offlined. We could not reproduce the same on x86_64 because the cpumask (node_to_cpumask) was not being updated on cpu down. Since that issue is now fixed, we can reproduce Sonny's problems on x86_64 NUMA, and here is the fix. The problem earlier was on CPU_DOWN, if it was the last cpu on the node to go down, the array_caches (shared, alien) and the kmem_list3 of the node were being freed (kfree) with the kmem_list3 lock held. If the l3 or the array_caches were to come from the same cache being cleared, we hit on badness. This patch cleans up the locking in cpu_up and cpu_down path. We cannot really free l3 on cpu down because, there is no node offlining yet and even though a cpu is not yet up, node local memory can be allocated for it. So l3s are usually allocated at keme_cache_create and destroyed at kmem_cache_destroy. Hence, we don't need cachep->spinlock protection to get to the cachep->nodelist[nodeid] either. Patch survived onlining and offlining on a 4 core 2 node Tyan box with a 4 dbench process running all the time. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-04 23:27:59 -08:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
numa: slab: use numa_mem_id() for slab local memory node Example usage of generic "numa_mem_id()": The mainline slab code, since ~ 2.6.19, does not handle memoryless nodes well. Specifically, the "fast path"--____cache_alloc()--will never succeed as slab doesn't cache offnode object on the per cpu queues, and for memoryless nodes, all memory will be "off node" relative to numa_node_id(). This adds significant overhead to all kmem cache allocations, incurring a significant regression relative to earlier kernels [from before slab.c was reorganized]. This patch uses the generic topology function "numa_mem_id()" to return the "effective local memory node" for the calling context. This is the first node in the local node's generic fallback zonelist-- the same node that "local" mempolicy-based allocations would use. This lets slab cache these "local" allocations and avoid fallback/refill on every allocation. N.B.: Slab will need to handle node and memory hotplug events that could change the value returned by numa_mem_id() for any given node if recent changes to address memory hotplug don't already address this. E.g., flush all per cpu slab queues before rebuilding the zonelists while the "machine" is held in the stopped state. Performance impact on "hackbench 400 process 200" 2.6.34-rc3-mmotm-100405-1609 no-patch this-patch ia64 no memoryless nodes [avg of 10]: 11.713 11.637 ~0.65 diff ia64 cpus all on memless nodes [10]: 228.259 26.484 ~8.6x speedup The slowdown of the patched kernel from ~12 sec to ~28 seconds when configured with memoryless nodes is the result of all cpus allocating from a single node's mm pagepool. The cache lines of the single node are distributed/interleaved over the memory of the real physical nodes, but the zone lock, list heads, ... of the single node with memory still each live in a single cache line that is accessed from all processors. x86_64 [8x6 AMD] [avg of 40]: 2.883 2.845 Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-26 14:45:03 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
numa: slab: use numa_mem_id() for slab local memory node Example usage of generic "numa_mem_id()": The mainline slab code, since ~ 2.6.19, does not handle memoryless nodes well. Specifically, the "fast path"--____cache_alloc()--will never succeed as slab doesn't cache offnode object on the per cpu queues, and for memoryless nodes, all memory will be "off node" relative to numa_node_id(). This adds significant overhead to all kmem cache allocations, incurring a significant regression relative to earlier kernels [from before slab.c was reorganized]. This patch uses the generic topology function "numa_mem_id()" to return the "effective local memory node" for the calling context. This is the first node in the local node's generic fallback zonelist-- the same node that "local" mempolicy-based allocations would use. This lets slab cache these "local" allocations and avoid fallback/refill on every allocation. N.B.: Slab will need to handle node and memory hotplug events that could change the value returned by numa_mem_id() for any given node if recent changes to address memory hotplug don't already address this. E.g., flush all per cpu slab queues before rebuilding the zonelists while the "machine" is held in the stopped state. Performance impact on "hackbench 400 process 200" 2.6.34-rc3-mmotm-100405-1609 no-patch this-patch ia64 no memoryless nodes [avg of 10]: 11.713 11.637 ~0.65 diff ia64 cpus all on memless nodes [10]: 228.259 26.484 ~8.6x speedup The slowdown of the patched kernel from ~12 sec to ~28 seconds when configured with memoryless nodes is the result of all cpus allocating from a single node's mm pagepool. The cache lines of the single node are distributed/interleaved over the memory of the real physical nodes, but the zone lock, list heads, ... of the single node with memory still each live in a single cache line that is accessed from all processors. x86_64 [8x6 AMD] [avg of 40]: 2.883 2.845 Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-26 14:45:03 -07:00
numa: slab: use numa_mem_id() for slab local memory node Example usage of generic "numa_mem_id()": The mainline slab code, since ~ 2.6.19, does not handle memoryless nodes well. Specifically, the "fast path"--____cache_alloc()--will never succeed as slab doesn't cache offnode object on the per cpu queues, and for memoryless nodes, all memory will be "off node" relative to numa_node_id(). This adds significant overhead to all kmem cache allocations, incurring a significant regression relative to earlier kernels [from before slab.c was reorganized]. This patch uses the generic topology function "numa_mem_id()" to return the "effective local memory node" for the calling context. This is the first node in the local node's generic fallback zonelist-- the same node that "local" mempolicy-based allocations would use. This lets slab cache these "local" allocations and avoid fallback/refill on every allocation. N.B.: Slab will need to handle node and memory hotplug events that could change the value returned by numa_mem_id() for any given node if recent changes to address memory hotplug don't already address this. E.g., flush all per cpu slab queues before rebuilding the zonelists while the "machine" is held in the stopped state. Performance impact on "hackbench 400 process 200" 2.6.34-rc3-mmotm-100405-1609 no-patch this-patch ia64 no memoryless nodes [avg of 10]: 11.713 11.637 ~0.65 diff ia64 cpus all on memless nodes [10]: 228.259 26.484 ~8.6x speedup The slowdown of the patched kernel from ~12 sec to ~28 seconds when configured with memoryless nodes is the result of all cpus allocating from a single node's mm pagepool. The cache lines of the single node are distributed/interleaved over the memory of the real physical nodes, but the zone lock, list heads, ... of the single node with memory still each live in a single cache line that is accessed from all processors. x86_64 [8x6 AMD] [avg of 40]: 2.883 2.845 Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-26 14:45:03 -07:00
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some changes to allocator boostrap code. Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar: We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code: [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000 [ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c [ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001 [ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002 [ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc [ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0 [ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003 [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c [ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-10 19:40:04 +03:00
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some changes to allocator boostrap code. Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar: We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code: [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000 [ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c [ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001 [ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002 [ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc [ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0 [ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003 [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c [ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-10 19:40:04 +03:00
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some changes to allocator boostrap code. Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar: We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code: [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000 [ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c [ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001 [ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002 [ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc [ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0 [ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003 [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c [ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-10 19:40:04 +03:00
[PATCH] NUMA slab locking fixes: fix cpu down and up locking This fixes locking and bugs in cpu_down and cpu_up paths of the NUMA slab allocator. Sonny Rao <sonny@burdell.org> reported problems sometime back on POWER5 boxes, when the last cpu on the nodes were being offlined. We could not reproduce the same on x86_64 because the cpumask (node_to_cpumask) was not being updated on cpu down. Since that issue is now fixed, we can reproduce Sonny's problems on x86_64 NUMA, and here is the fix. The problem earlier was on CPU_DOWN, if it was the last cpu on the node to go down, the array_caches (shared, alien) and the kmem_list3 of the node were being freed (kfree) with the kmem_list3 lock held. If the l3 or the array_caches were to come from the same cache being cleared, we hit on badness. This patch cleans up the locking in cpu_up and cpu_down path. We cannot really free l3 on cpu down because, there is no node offlining yet and even though a cpu is not yet up, node local memory can be allocated for it. So l3s are usually allocated at keme_cache_create and destroyed at kmem_cache_destroy. Hence, we don't need cachep->spinlock protection to get to the cachep->nodelist[nodeid] either. Patch survived onlining and offlining on a 4 core 2 node Tyan box with a 4 dbench process running all the time. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-04 23:27:59 -08:00
SLAB: Fix lockdep annotations for CPU hotplug As reported by Paul McKenney: I am seeing some lockdep complaints in rcutorture runs that include frequent CPU-hotplug operations. The tests are otherwise successful. My first thought was to send a patch that gave each array_cache structure's ->lock field its own struct lock_class_key, but you already have a init_lock_keys() that seems to be intended to deal with this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ============================================= [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] 2.6.32-rc4-autokern1 #1 --------------------------------------------- syslogd/2908 is trying to acquire lock: (&nc->lock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000001407f4>] .kmem_cache_free+0x118/0x2d4 but task is already holding lock: (&nc->lock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000001411bc>] .kfree+0x1f0/0x324 other info that might help us debug this: 3 locks held by syslogd/2908: #0: (&u->readlock){+.+.+.}, at: [<c0000000004556f8>] .unix_dgram_recvmsg+0x70/0x338 #1: (&nc->lock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000001411bc>] .kfree+0x1f0/0x324 #2: (&parent->list_lock){-.-...}, at: [<c000000000140f64>] .__drain_alien_cache+0x50/0xb8 stack backtrace: Call Trace: [c0000000e8ccafc0] [c0000000000101e4] .show_stack+0x70/0x184 (unreliable) [c0000000e8ccb070] [c0000000000afebc] .validate_chain+0x6ec/0xf58 [c0000000e8ccb180] [c0000000000b0ff0] .__lock_acquire+0x8c8/0x974 [c0000000e8ccb280] [c0000000000b2290] .lock_acquire+0x140/0x18c [c0000000e8ccb350] [c000000000468df0] ._spin_lock+0x48/0x70 [c0000000e8ccb3e0] [c0000000001407f4] .kmem_cache_free+0x118/0x2d4 [c0000000e8ccb4a0] [c000000000140b90] .free_block+0x130/0x1a8 [c0000000e8ccb540] [c000000000140f94] .__drain_alien_cache+0x80/0xb8 [c0000000e8ccb5e0] [c0000000001411e0] .kfree+0x214/0x324 [c0000000e8ccb6a0] [c0000000003ca860] .skb_release_data+0xe8/0x104 [c0000000e8ccb730] [c0000000003ca2ec] .__kfree_skb+0x20/0xd4 [c0000000e8ccb7b0] [c0000000003cf2c8] .skb_free_datagram+0x1c/0x5c [c0000000e8ccb830] [c00000000045597c] .unix_dgram_recvmsg+0x2f4/0x338 [c0000000e8ccb920] [c0000000003c0f14] .sock_recvmsg+0xf4/0x13c [c0000000e8ccbb30] [c0000000003c28ec] .SyS_recvfrom+0xb4/0x130 [c0000000e8ccbcb0] [c0000000003bfb78] .sys_recv+0x18/0x2c [c0000000e8ccbd20] [c0000000003ed388] .compat_sys_recv+0x14/0x28 [c0000000e8ccbd90] [c0000000003ee1bc] .compat_sys_socketcall+0x178/0x220 [c0000000e8ccbe30] [c0000000000085d4] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40 This patch fixes the issue by setting up lockdep annotations during CPU hotplug. Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-11-23 22:01:15 +02:00
[PATCH] NUMA slab locking fixes: fix cpu down and up locking This fixes locking and bugs in cpu_down and cpu_up paths of the NUMA slab allocator. Sonny Rao <sonny@burdell.org> reported problems sometime back on POWER5 boxes, when the last cpu on the nodes were being offlined. We could not reproduce the same on x86_64 because the cpumask (node_to_cpumask) was not being updated on cpu down. Since that issue is now fixed, we can reproduce Sonny's problems on x86_64 NUMA, and here is the fix. The problem earlier was on CPU_DOWN, if it was the last cpu on the node to go down, the array_caches (shared, alien) and the kmem_list3 of the node were being freed (kfree) with the kmem_list3 lock held. If the l3 or the array_caches were to come from the same cache being cleared, we hit on badness. This patch cleans up the locking in cpu_up and cpu_down path. We cannot really free l3 on cpu down because, there is no node offlining yet and even though a cpu is not yet up, node local memory can be allocated for it. So l3s are usually allocated at keme_cache_create and destroyed at kmem_cache_destroy. Hence, we don't need cachep->spinlock protection to get to the cachep->nodelist[nodeid] either. Patch survived onlining and offlining on a 4 core 2 node Tyan box with a 4 dbench process running all the time. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-04 23:27:59 -08:00
[PATCH] NUMA slab locking fixes: fix cpu down and up locking This fixes locking and bugs in cpu_down and cpu_up paths of the NUMA slab allocator. Sonny Rao <sonny@burdell.org> reported problems sometime back on POWER5 boxes, when the last cpu on the nodes were being offlined. We could not reproduce the same on x86_64 because the cpumask (node_to_cpumask) was not being updated on cpu down. Since that issue is now fixed, we can reproduce Sonny's problems on x86_64 NUMA, and here is the fix. The problem earlier was on CPU_DOWN, if it was the last cpu on the node to go down, the array_caches (shared, alien) and the kmem_list3 of the node were being freed (kfree) with the kmem_list3 lock held. If the l3 or the array_caches were to come from the same cache being cleared, we hit on badness. This patch cleans up the locking in cpu_up and cpu_down path. We cannot really free l3 on cpu down because, there is no node offlining yet and even though a cpu is not yet up, node local memory can be allocated for it. So l3s are usually allocated at keme_cache_create and destroyed at kmem_cache_destroy. Hence, we don't need cachep->spinlock protection to get to the cachep->nodelist[nodeid] either. Patch survived onlining and offlining on a 4 core 2 node Tyan box with a 4 dbench process running all the time. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-04 23:27:59 -08:00
[PATCH] NUMA slab locking fixes: fix cpu down and up locking This fixes locking and bugs in cpu_down and cpu_up paths of the NUMA slab allocator. Sonny Rao <sonny@burdell.org> reported problems sometime back on POWER5 boxes, when the last cpu on the nodes were being offlined. We could not reproduce the same on x86_64 because the cpumask (node_to_cpumask) was not being updated on cpu down. Since that issue is now fixed, we can reproduce Sonny's problems on x86_64 NUMA, and here is the fix. The problem earlier was on CPU_DOWN, if it was the last cpu on the node to go down, the array_caches (shared, alien) and the kmem_list3 of the node were being freed (kfree) with the kmem_list3 lock held. If the l3 or the array_caches were to come from the same cache being cleared, we hit on badness. This patch cleans up the locking in cpu_up and cpu_down path. We cannot really free l3 on cpu down because, there is no node offlining yet and even though a cpu is not yet up, node local memory can be allocated for it. So l3s are usually allocated at keme_cache_create and destroyed at kmem_cache_destroy. Hence, we don't need cachep->spinlock protection to get to the cachep->nodelist[nodeid] either. Patch survived onlining and offlining on a 4 core 2 node Tyan box with a 4 dbench process running all the time. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-04 23:27:59 -08:00
[PATCH] mm: slab: eliminate lock_cpu_hotplug from slab Here's an attempt towards doing away with lock_cpu_hotplug in the slab subsystem. This approach also fixes a bug which shows up when cpus are being offlined/onlined and slab caches are being tuned simultaneously. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116098888100481&w=2 The patch has been stress tested overnight on a 2 socket 4 core AMD box with repeated cpu online and offline, while dbench and kernbench process are running, and slab caches being tuned at the same time. There were no lockdep warnings either. (This test on 2,6.18 as 2.6.19-rc crashes at __drain_pages http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116172164217678&w=2 ) The approach here is to hold cache_chain_mutex from CPU_UP_PREPARE until CPU_ONLINE (similar in approach as worqueue_mutex) . Slab code sensitive to cpu_online_map (kmem_cache_create, kmem_cache_destroy, slabinfo_write, __cache_shrink) is already serialized with cache_chain_mutex. (This patch lengthens cache_chain_mutex hold time at kmem_cache_destroy to cover this). This patch also takes the cache_chain_sem at kmem_cache_shrink to protect sanity of cpu_online_map at __cache_shrink, as viewed by slab. (kmem_cache_shrink->__cache_shrink->drain_cpu_caches). But, really, kmem_cache_shrink is used at just one place in the acpi subsystem! Do we really need to keep kmem_cache_shrink at all? Another note. Looks like a cpu hotplug event can send CPU_UP_CANCELED to a registered subsystem even if the subsystem did not receive CPU_UP_PREPARE. This could be due to a subsystem registered for notification earlier than the current subsystem crapping out with NOTIFY_BAD. Badness can occur with in the CPU_UP_CANCELED code path at slab if this happens (The same would apply for workqueue.c as well). To overcome this, we might have to use either a) a per subsystem flag and avoid handling of CPU_UP_CANCELED, or b) Use a special notifier events like LOCK_ACQUIRE/RELEASE as Gautham was using in his experiments, or c) Do not send CPU_UP_CANCELED to a subsystem which did not receive CPU_UP_PREPARE. I would prefer c). Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-06 20:32:14 -08:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some changes to allocator boostrap code. Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar: We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code: [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000 [ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c [ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001 [ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002 [ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc [ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0 [ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003 [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c [ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-10 19:40:04 +03:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some changes to allocator boostrap code. Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar: We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code: [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000 [ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c [ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001 [ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002 [ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc [ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0 [ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003 [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c [ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-10 19:40:04 +03:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
slab: setup cpu caches later on when interrupts are enabled Fixes the following boot-time warning: [ 0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 0.000000] WARNING: at kernel/smp.c:369 smp_call_function_many+0x56/0x1bc() [ 0.000000] Hardware name: [ 0.000000] Modules linked in: [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30 #492 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8149e021>] ? _spin_unlock+0x4f/0x5c [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8108f11b>] ? smp_call_function_many+0x56/0x1bc [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81061764>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7c/0xa9 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff810617a5>] warn_slowpath_null+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8108f11b>] smp_call_function_many+0x56/0x1bc [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff810f3e00>] ? do_ccupdate_local+0x0/0x54 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff810f3e00>] ? do_ccupdate_local+0x0/0x54 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8108f2be>] smp_call_function+0x3d/0x68 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff810f3e00>] ? do_ccupdate_local+0x0/0x54 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81066fd8>] on_each_cpu+0x31/0x7c [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff810f64f5>] do_tune_cpucache+0x119/0x454 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81087080>] ? lockdep_init_map+0x94/0x10b [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff818133b0>] ? kmem_cache_init+0x421/0x593 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff810f69cf>] enable_cpucache+0x68/0xad [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff818133c3>] kmem_cache_init+0x434/0x593 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8180987c>] ? mem_init+0x156/0x161 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff817f8aae>] start_kernel+0x1cc/0x3b9 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff817f829a>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xaa/0xae [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff817f837f>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xe1/0xe8 [ 0.000000] ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]--- Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-12 15:58:59 +03:00
slab: setup cpu caches later on when interrupts are enabled Fixes the following boot-time warning: [ 0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 0.000000] WARNING: at kernel/smp.c:369 smp_call_function_many+0x56/0x1bc() [ 0.000000] Hardware name: [ 0.000000] Modules linked in: [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30 #492 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8149e021>] ? _spin_unlock+0x4f/0x5c [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8108f11b>] ? smp_call_function_many+0x56/0x1bc [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81061764>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7c/0xa9 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff810617a5>] warn_slowpath_null+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8108f11b>] smp_call_function_many+0x56/0x1bc [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff810f3e00>] ? do_ccupdate_local+0x0/0x54 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff810f3e00>] ? do_ccupdate_local+0x0/0x54 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8108f2be>] smp_call_function+0x3d/0x68 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff810f3e00>] ? do_ccupdate_local+0x0/0x54 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81066fd8>] on_each_cpu+0x31/0x7c [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff810f64f5>] do_tune_cpucache+0x119/0x454 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81087080>] ? lockdep_init_map+0x94/0x10b [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff818133b0>] ? kmem_cache_init+0x421/0x593 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff810f69cf>] enable_cpucache+0x68/0xad [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff818133c3>] kmem_cache_init+0x434/0x593 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8180987c>] ? mem_init+0x156/0x161 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff817f8aae>] start_kernel+0x1cc/0x3b9 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff817f829a>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xaa/0xae [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff817f837f>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xe1/0xe8 [ 0.000000] ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]--- Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-12 15:58:59 +03:00
slab: setup cpu caches later on when interrupts are enabled Fixes the following boot-time warning: [ 0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 0.000000] WARNING: at kernel/smp.c:369 smp_call_function_many+0x56/0x1bc() [ 0.000000] Hardware name: [ 0.000000] Modules linked in: [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30 #492 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8149e021>] ? _spin_unlock+0x4f/0x5c [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8108f11b>] ? smp_call_function_many+0x56/0x1bc [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81061764>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7c/0xa9 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff810617a5>] warn_slowpath_null+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8108f11b>] smp_call_function_many+0x56/0x1bc [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff810f3e00>] ? do_ccupdate_local+0x0/0x54 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff810f3e00>] ? do_ccupdate_local+0x0/0x54 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8108f2be>] smp_call_function+0x3d/0x68 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff810f3e00>] ? do_ccupdate_local+0x0/0x54 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81066fd8>] on_each_cpu+0x31/0x7c [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff810f64f5>] do_tune_cpucache+0x119/0x454 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81087080>] ? lockdep_init_map+0x94/0x10b [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff818133b0>] ? kmem_cache_init+0x421/0x593 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff810f69cf>] enable_cpucache+0x68/0xad [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff818133c3>] kmem_cache_init+0x434/0x593 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8180987c>] ? mem_init+0x156/0x161 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff817f8aae>] start_kernel+0x1cc/0x3b9 [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff817f829a>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xaa/0xae [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff817f837f>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xe1/0xe8 [ 0.000000] ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]--- Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-12 15:58:59 +03:00
slab: fix the DEADLOCK issue on l3 alien lock DEADLOCK will be report while running a kernel with NUMA and LOCKDEP enabled, the process of this fake report is: kmem_cache_free() //free obj in cachep -> cache_free_alien() //acquire cachep's l3 alien lock -> __drain_alien_cache() -> free_block() -> slab_destroy() -> kmem_cache_free() //free slab in cachep->slabp_cache -> cache_free_alien() //acquire cachep->slabp_cache's l3 alien lock Since the cachep and cachep->slabp_cache's l3 alien are in the same lock class, fake report generated. This should not happen since we already have init_lock_keys() which will reassign the lock class for both l3 list and l3 alien. However, init_lock_keys() was invoked at a wrong position which is before we invoke enable_cpucache() on each cache. Since until set slab_state to be FULL, we won't invoke enable_cpucache() on caches to build their l3 alien while creating them, so although we invoked init_lock_keys(), the l3 alien lock class won't change since we don't have them until invoked enable_cpucache() later. This patch will invoke init_lock_keys() after we done enable_cpucache() instead of before to avoid the fake DEADLOCK report. Michael traced the problem back to a commit in release 3.0.0: commit 30765b92ada267c5395fc788623cb15233276f5c Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Date: Thu Jul 28 23:22:56 2011 +0200 slab, lockdep: Annotate the locks before using them Fernando found we hit the regular OFF_SLAB 'recursion' before we annotate the locks, cure this. The relevant portion of the stack-trace: > [ 0.000000] [<c085e24f>] rt_spin_lock+0x50/0x56 > [ 0.000000] [<c04fb406>] __cache_free+0x43/0xc3 > [ 0.000000] [<c04fb23f>] kmem_cache_free+0x6c/0xdc > [ 0.000000] [<c04fb2fe>] slab_destroy+0x4f/0x53 > [ 0.000000] [<c04fb396>] free_block+0x94/0xc1 > [ 0.000000] [<c04fc551>] do_tune_cpucache+0x10b/0x2bb > [ 0.000000] [<c04fc8dc>] enable_cpucache+0x7b/0xa7 > [ 0.000000] [<c0bd9d3c>] kmem_cache_init_late+0x1f/0x61 > [ 0.000000] [<c0bba687>] start_kernel+0x24c/0x363 > [ 0.000000] [<c0bba0ba>] i386_start_kernel+0xa9/0xaf Reported-by: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1311888176.2617.379.camel@laptop Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> The commit moved init_lock_keys() before we build up the alien, so we failed to reclass it. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.0+ Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-05 10:33:18 +08:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] GFP_THISNODE for the slab allocator This patch insures that the slab node lists in the NUMA case only contain slabs that belong to that specific node. All slab allocations use GFP_THISNODE when calling into the page allocator. If an allocation fails then we fall back in the slab allocator according to the zonelists appropriate for a certain context. This allows a replication of the behavior of alloc_pages and alloc_pages node in the slab layer. Currently allocations requested from the page allocator may be redirected via cpusets to other nodes. This results in remote pages on nodelists and that in turn results in interrupt latency issues during cache draining. Plus the slab is handing out memory as local when it is really remote. Fallback for slab memory allocations will occur within the slab allocator and not in the page allocator. This is necessary in order to be able to use the existing pools of objects on the nodes that we fall back to before adding more pages to a slab. The fallback function insures that the nodes we fall back to obey cpuset restrictions of the current context. We do not allocate objects from outside of the current cpuset context like before. Note that the implementation of locality constraints within the slab allocator requires importing logic from the page allocator. This is a mischmash that is not that great. Other allocators (uncached allocator, vmalloc, huge pages) face similar problems and have similar minimal reimplementations of the basic fallback logic of the page allocator. There is another way of implementing a slab by avoiding per node lists (see modular slab) but this wont work within the existing slab. V1->V2: - Use NUMA_BUILD to avoid #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA - Exploit GFP_THISNODE being 0 in the NON_NUMA case to avoid another #ifdef [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 01:50:08 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
Increase slab redzone to 64bits There are two problems with the existing redzone implementation. Firstly, it's causing misalignment of structures which contain a 64-bit integer, such as netfilter's 'struct ipt_entry' -- causing netfilter modules to fail to load because of the misalignment. (In particular, the first check in net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c::check_entry_size_and_hooks()) On ppc32 and sparc32, amongst others, __alignof__(uint64_t) == 8. With slab debugging, we use 32-bit redzones. And allocated slab objects aren't sufficiently aligned to hold a structure containing a uint64_t. By _just_ setting ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to __alignof__(u64) we'd disable redzone checks on those architectures. By using 64-bit redzones we avoid that loss of debugging, and also fix the other problem while we're at it. When investigating this, I noticed that on 64-bit platforms we're using a 32-bit value of RED_ACTIVE/RED_INACTIVE in the 64-bit memory location set aside for the redzone. Which means that the four bytes immediately before or after the allocated object at 0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00 for LE and BE machines, respectively. Which is probably not the most useful choice of poison value. One way to fix both of those at once is just to switch to 64-bit redzones in all cases. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 00:22:59 -07:00
[PATCH] slab.c: fix offslab_limit bug mm/slab.c's offlab_limit logic is totally broken. Firstly, "offslab_limit" is a global variable while it should either be calculated in situ or should be passed in as a parameter. Secondly, the more serious problem with it is that the condition for calculating it: if (!(OFF_SLAB(sizes->cs_cachep))) { offslab_limit = sizes->cs_size - sizeof(struct slab); offslab_limit /= sizeof(kmem_bufctl_t); is in total disconnect with the condition that makes use of it: /* More than offslab_limit objects will cause problems */ if ((flags & CFLGS_OFF_SLAB) && num > offslab_limit) break; but due to offslab_limit being a global variable this breakage was hidden. Up until lockdep came along and perturbed the slab sizes sufficiently so that the first off-slab cache would still see a (non-calculated) zero value for offslab_limit and would panic with: kmem_cache_create: couldn't create cache size-512. Call Trace: [<ffffffff8020a5b9>] show_trace+0x96/0x1c8 [<ffffffff8020a8f0>] dump_stack+0x13/0x15 [<ffffffff8022994f>] panic+0x39/0x21a [<ffffffff80270814>] kmem_cache_create+0x5a0/0x5d0 [<ffffffff80aced62>] kmem_cache_init+0x193/0x379 [<ffffffff80abf779>] start_kernel+0x17f/0x218 [<ffffffff80abf263>] _sinittext+0x263/0x26a Kernel panic - not syncing: kmem_cache_create(): failed to create slab `size-512' Paolo Ornati's config on x86_64 managed to trigger it. The fix is to move the calculation to the place that makes use of it. This also makes slab.o 54 bytes smaller. Btw., the check itself is quite silly. Its intention is to test whether the number of objects per slab would be higher than the number of slab control pointers possible. In theory it could be triggered: if someone tried to allocate 4-byte objects cache and explicitly requested with CFLGS_OFF_SLAB. So i kept the check. Out of historic interest i checked how old this bug was and it's ancient, 10 years old! It is the oldest hidden and then truly triggering bugs i ever saw being fixed in the kernel! Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-02 15:44:58 +02:00
[PATCH] slab.c: fix offslab_limit bug mm/slab.c's offlab_limit logic is totally broken. Firstly, "offslab_limit" is a global variable while it should either be calculated in situ or should be passed in as a parameter. Secondly, the more serious problem with it is that the condition for calculating it: if (!(OFF_SLAB(sizes->cs_cachep))) { offslab_limit = sizes->cs_size - sizeof(struct slab); offslab_limit /= sizeof(kmem_bufctl_t); is in total disconnect with the condition that makes use of it: /* More than offslab_limit objects will cause problems */ if ((flags & CFLGS_OFF_SLAB) && num > offslab_limit) break; but due to offslab_limit being a global variable this breakage was hidden. Up until lockdep came along and perturbed the slab sizes sufficiently so that the first off-slab cache would still see a (non-calculated) zero value for offslab_limit and would panic with: kmem_cache_create: couldn't create cache size-512. Call Trace: [<ffffffff8020a5b9>] show_trace+0x96/0x1c8 [<ffffffff8020a8f0>] dump_stack+0x13/0x15 [<ffffffff8022994f>] panic+0x39/0x21a [<ffffffff80270814>] kmem_cache_create+0x5a0/0x5d0 [<ffffffff80aced62>] kmem_cache_init+0x193/0x379 [<ffffffff80abf779>] start_kernel+0x17f/0x218 [<ffffffff80abf263>] _sinittext+0x263/0x26a Kernel panic - not syncing: kmem_cache_create(): failed to create slab `size-512' Paolo Ornati's config on x86_64 managed to trigger it. The fix is to move the calculation to the place that makes use of it. This also makes slab.o 54 bytes smaller. Btw., the check itself is quite silly. Its intention is to test whether the number of objects per slab would be higher than the number of slab control pointers possible. In theory it could be triggered: if someone tried to allocate 4-byte objects cache and explicitly requested with CFLGS_OFF_SLAB. So i kept the check. Out of historic interest i checked how old this bug was and it's ancient, 10 years old! It is the oldest hidden and then truly triggering bugs i ever saw being fixed in the kernel! Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-02 15:44:58 +02:00
[PATCH] slab.c: fix offslab_limit bug mm/slab.c's offlab_limit logic is totally broken. Firstly, "offslab_limit" is a global variable while it should either be calculated in situ or should be passed in as a parameter. Secondly, the more serious problem with it is that the condition for calculating it: if (!(OFF_SLAB(sizes->cs_cachep))) { offslab_limit = sizes->cs_size - sizeof(struct slab); offslab_limit /= sizeof(kmem_bufctl_t); is in total disconnect with the condition that makes use of it: /* More than offslab_limit objects will cause problems */ if ((flags & CFLGS_OFF_SLAB) && num > offslab_limit) break; but due to offslab_limit being a global variable this breakage was hidden. Up until lockdep came along and perturbed the slab sizes sufficiently so that the first off-slab cache would still see a (non-calculated) zero value for offslab_limit and would panic with: kmem_cache_create: couldn't create cache size-512. Call Trace: [<ffffffff8020a5b9>] show_trace+0x96/0x1c8 [<ffffffff8020a8f0>] dump_stack+0x13/0x15 [<ffffffff8022994f>] panic+0x39/0x21a [<ffffffff80270814>] kmem_cache_create+0x5a0/0x5d0 [<ffffffff80aced62>] kmem_cache_init+0x193/0x379 [<ffffffff80abf779>] start_kernel+0x17f/0x218 [<ffffffff80abf263>] _sinittext+0x263/0x26a Kernel panic - not syncing: kmem_cache_create(): failed to create slab `size-512' Paolo Ornati's config on x86_64 managed to trigger it. The fix is to move the calculation to the place that makes use of it. This also makes slab.o 54 bytes smaller. Btw., the check itself is quite silly. Its intention is to test whether the number of objects per slab would be higher than the number of slab control pointers possible. In theory it could be triggered: if someone tried to allocate 4-byte objects cache and explicitly requested with CFLGS_OFF_SLAB. So i kept the check. Out of historic interest i checked how old this bug was and it's ancient, 10 years old! It is the oldest hidden and then truly triggering bugs i ever saw being fixed in the kernel! Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-02 15:44:58 +02:00
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some changes to allocator boostrap code. Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar: We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code: [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000 [ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c [ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001 [ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002 [ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc [ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0 [ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003 [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c [ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-10 19:40:04 +03:00
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some changes to allocator boostrap code. Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar: We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code: [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000 [ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c [ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001 [ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002 [ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc [ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0 [ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003 [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c [ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-10 19:40:04 +03:00
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some changes to allocator boostrap code. Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar: We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code: [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000 [ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c [ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001 [ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002 [ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc [ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0 [ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003 [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c [ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-10 19:40:04 +03:00
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some changes to allocator boostrap code. Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar: We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code: [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000 [ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c [ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001 [ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002 [ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc [ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0 [ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003 [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c [ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-10 19:40:04 +03:00
Revert "slab: Fix missing DEBUG_SLAB last user" This reverts commit 5c5e3b33b7cb959a401f823707bee006caadd76e. The commit breaks ARM thusly: | Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 | slab error in verify_redzone_free(): cache `idr_layer_cache': memory outside object was overwritten | Backtrace: | [<c0227088>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x110) from [<c0431afc>] (dump_stack+0x18/0x1c) | [<c0431ae4>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<c0293304>] (__slab_error+0x28/0x30) | [<c02932dc>] (__slab_error+0x0/0x30) from [<c0293a74>] (cache_free_debugcheck+0x1c0/0x2b8) | [<c02938b4>] (cache_free_debugcheck+0x0/0x2b8) from [<c0293f78>] (kmem_cache_free+0x3c/0xc0) | [<c0293f3c>] (kmem_cache_free+0x0/0xc0) from [<c032b1c8>] (ida_get_new_above+0x19c/0x1c0) | [<c032b02c>] (ida_get_new_above+0x0/0x1c0) from [<c02af7ec>] (alloc_vfsmnt+0x54/0x144) | [<c02af798>] (alloc_vfsmnt+0x0/0x144) from [<c0299830>] (vfs_kern_mount+0x30/0xec) | [<c0299800>] (vfs_kern_mount+0x0/0xec) from [<c0299908>] (kern_mount_data+0x1c/0x20) | [<c02998ec>] (kern_mount_data+0x0/0x20) from [<c02146c4>] (sysfs_init+0x68/0xc8) | [<c021465c>] (sysfs_init+0x0/0xc8) from [<c02137d4>] (mnt_init+0x90/0x1b0) | [<c0213744>] (mnt_init+0x0/0x1b0) from [<c0213388>] (vfs_caches_init+0x100/0x140) | [<c0213288>] (vfs_caches_init+0x0/0x140) from [<c0208c0c>] (start_kernel+0x2e8/0x368) | [<c0208924>] (start_kernel+0x0/0x368) from [<c0208034>] (__enable_mmu+0x0/0x2c) | c0113268: redzone 1:0xd84156c5c032b3ac, redzone 2:0xd84156c5635688c0. | slab error in cache_alloc_debugcheck_after(): cache `idr_layer_cache': double free, or memory outside object was overwritten | ... | c011307c: redzone 1:0x9f91102ffffffff, redzone 2:0x9f911029d74e35b | slab: Internal list corruption detected in cache 'idr_layer_cache'(24), slabp c0113000(16). Hexdump: | | 000: 20 4f 10 c0 20 4f 10 c0 7c 00 00 00 7c 30 11 c0 | 010: 10 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 c9 17 fe ff ff ff | 020: fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff | 030: fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff | 040: fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff | 050: fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff 11 00 00 00 | 060: 12 00 00 00 13 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 15 00 00 00 | 070: 16 00 00 00 17 00 00 00 c0 88 56 63 | kernel BUG at /home/rmk/git/linux-2.6-rmk/mm/slab.c:2928! Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/7/238 Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # 2.6.35.y and later Reported-and-analyzed-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-02-14 17:46:21 +02:00
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some changes to allocator boostrap code. Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar: We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code: [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000 [ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c [ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001 [ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002 [ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc [ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0 [ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003 [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c [ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-10 19:40:04 +03:00
Revert "slab: Fix missing DEBUG_SLAB last user" This reverts commit 5c5e3b33b7cb959a401f823707bee006caadd76e. The commit breaks ARM thusly: | Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 | slab error in verify_redzone_free(): cache `idr_layer_cache': memory outside object was overwritten | Backtrace: | [<c0227088>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x110) from [<c0431afc>] (dump_stack+0x18/0x1c) | [<c0431ae4>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<c0293304>] (__slab_error+0x28/0x30) | [<c02932dc>] (__slab_error+0x0/0x30) from [<c0293a74>] (cache_free_debugcheck+0x1c0/0x2b8) | [<c02938b4>] (cache_free_debugcheck+0x0/0x2b8) from [<c0293f78>] (kmem_cache_free+0x3c/0xc0) | [<c0293f3c>] (kmem_cache_free+0x0/0xc0) from [<c032b1c8>] (ida_get_new_above+0x19c/0x1c0) | [<c032b02c>] (ida_get_new_above+0x0/0x1c0) from [<c02af7ec>] (alloc_vfsmnt+0x54/0x144) | [<c02af798>] (alloc_vfsmnt+0x0/0x144) from [<c0299830>] (vfs_kern_mount+0x30/0xec) | [<c0299800>] (vfs_kern_mount+0x0/0xec) from [<c0299908>] (kern_mount_data+0x1c/0x20) | [<c02998ec>] (kern_mount_data+0x0/0x20) from [<c02146c4>] (sysfs_init+0x68/0xc8) | [<c021465c>] (sysfs_init+0x0/0xc8) from [<c02137d4>] (mnt_init+0x90/0x1b0) | [<c0213744>] (mnt_init+0x0/0x1b0) from [<c0213388>] (vfs_caches_init+0x100/0x140) | [<c0213288>] (vfs_caches_init+0x0/0x140) from [<c0208c0c>] (start_kernel+0x2e8/0x368) | [<c0208924>] (start_kernel+0x0/0x368) from [<c0208034>] (__enable_mmu+0x0/0x2c) | c0113268: redzone 1:0xd84156c5c032b3ac, redzone 2:0xd84156c5635688c0. | slab error in cache_alloc_debugcheck_after(): cache `idr_layer_cache': double free, or memory outside object was overwritten | ... | c011307c: redzone 1:0x9f91102ffffffff, redzone 2:0x9f911029d74e35b | slab: Internal list corruption detected in cache 'idr_layer_cache'(24), slabp c0113000(16). Hexdump: | | 000: 20 4f 10 c0 20 4f 10 c0 7c 00 00 00 7c 30 11 c0 | 010: 10 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 c9 17 fe ff ff ff | 020: fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff | 030: fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff | 040: fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff | 050: fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff 11 00 00 00 | 060: 12 00 00 00 13 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 15 00 00 00 | 070: 16 00 00 00 17 00 00 00 c0 88 56 63 | kernel BUG at /home/rmk/git/linux-2.6-rmk/mm/slab.c:2928! Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/7/238 Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # 2.6.35.y and later Reported-and-analyzed-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-02-14 17:46:21 +02:00
2006-12-13 00:34:27 -08:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
numa: slab: use numa_mem_id() for slab local memory node Example usage of generic "numa_mem_id()": The mainline slab code, since ~ 2.6.19, does not handle memoryless nodes well. Specifically, the "fast path"--____cache_alloc()--will never succeed as slab doesn't cache offnode object on the per cpu queues, and for memoryless nodes, all memory will be "off node" relative to numa_node_id(). This adds significant overhead to all kmem cache allocations, incurring a significant regression relative to earlier kernels [from before slab.c was reorganized]. This patch uses the generic topology function "numa_mem_id()" to return the "effective local memory node" for the calling context. This is the first node in the local node's generic fallback zonelist-- the same node that "local" mempolicy-based allocations would use. This lets slab cache these "local" allocations and avoid fallback/refill on every allocation. N.B.: Slab will need to handle node and memory hotplug events that could change the value returned by numa_mem_id() for any given node if recent changes to address memory hotplug don't already address this. E.g., flush all per cpu slab queues before rebuilding the zonelists while the "machine" is held in the stopped state. Performance impact on "hackbench 400 process 200" 2.6.34-rc3-mmotm-100405-1609 no-patch this-patch ia64 no memoryless nodes [avg of 10]: 11.713 11.637 ~0.65 diff ia64 cpus all on memless nodes [10]: 228.259 26.484 ~8.6x speedup The slowdown of the patched kernel from ~12 sec to ~28 seconds when configured with memoryless nodes is the result of all cpus allocating from a single node's mm pagepool. The cache lines of the single node are distributed/interleaved over the memory of the real physical nodes, but the zone lock, list heads, ... of the single node with memory still each live in a single cache line that is accessed from all processors. x86_64 [8x6 AMD] [avg of 40]: 2.883 2.845 Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-26 14:45:03 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] mm: slab: eliminate lock_cpu_hotplug from slab Here's an attempt towards doing away with lock_cpu_hotplug in the slab subsystem. This approach also fixes a bug which shows up when cpus are being offlined/onlined and slab caches are being tuned simultaneously. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116098888100481&w=2 The patch has been stress tested overnight on a 2 socket 4 core AMD box with repeated cpu online and offline, while dbench and kernbench process are running, and slab caches being tuned at the same time. There were no lockdep warnings either. (This test on 2,6.18 as 2.6.19-rc crashes at __drain_pages http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116172164217678&w=2 ) The approach here is to hold cache_chain_mutex from CPU_UP_PREPARE until CPU_ONLINE (similar in approach as worqueue_mutex) . Slab code sensitive to cpu_online_map (kmem_cache_create, kmem_cache_destroy, slabinfo_write, __cache_shrink) is already serialized with cache_chain_mutex. (This patch lengthens cache_chain_mutex hold time at kmem_cache_destroy to cover this). This patch also takes the cache_chain_sem at kmem_cache_shrink to protect sanity of cpu_online_map at __cache_shrink, as viewed by slab. (kmem_cache_shrink->__cache_shrink->drain_cpu_caches). But, really, kmem_cache_shrink is used at just one place in the acpi subsystem! Do we really need to keep kmem_cache_shrink at all? Another note. Looks like a cpu hotplug event can send CPU_UP_CANCELED to a registered subsystem even if the subsystem did not receive CPU_UP_PREPARE. This could be due to a subsystem registered for notification earlier than the current subsystem crapping out with NOTIFY_BAD. Badness can occur with in the CPU_UP_CANCELED code path at slab if this happens (The same would apply for workqueue.c as well). To overcome this, we might have to use either a) a per subsystem flag and avoid handling of CPU_UP_CANCELED, or b) Use a special notifier events like LOCK_ACQUIRE/RELEASE as Gautham was using in his experiments, or c) Do not send CPU_UP_CANCELED to a subsystem which did not receive CPU_UP_PREPARE. I would prefer c). Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-06 20:32:14 -08:00
[PATCH] mm: slab: eliminate lock_cpu_hotplug from slab Here's an attempt towards doing away with lock_cpu_hotplug in the slab subsystem. This approach also fixes a bug which shows up when cpus are being offlined/onlined and slab caches are being tuned simultaneously. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116098888100481&w=2 The patch has been stress tested overnight on a 2 socket 4 core AMD box with repeated cpu online and offline, while dbench and kernbench process are running, and slab caches being tuned at the same time. There were no lockdep warnings either. (This test on 2,6.18 as 2.6.19-rc crashes at __drain_pages http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116172164217678&w=2 ) The approach here is to hold cache_chain_mutex from CPU_UP_PREPARE until CPU_ONLINE (similar in approach as worqueue_mutex) . Slab code sensitive to cpu_online_map (kmem_cache_create, kmem_cache_destroy, slabinfo_write, __cache_shrink) is already serialized with cache_chain_mutex. (This patch lengthens cache_chain_mutex hold time at kmem_cache_destroy to cover this). This patch also takes the cache_chain_sem at kmem_cache_shrink to protect sanity of cpu_online_map at __cache_shrink, as viewed by slab. (kmem_cache_shrink->__cache_shrink->drain_cpu_caches). But, really, kmem_cache_shrink is used at just one place in the acpi subsystem! Do we really need to keep kmem_cache_shrink at all? Another note. Looks like a cpu hotplug event can send CPU_UP_CANCELED to a registered subsystem even if the subsystem did not receive CPU_UP_PREPARE. This could be due to a subsystem registered for notification earlier than the current subsystem crapping out with NOTIFY_BAD. Badness can occur with in the CPU_UP_CANCELED code path at slab if this happens (The same would apply for workqueue.c as well). To overcome this, we might have to use either a) a per subsystem flag and avoid handling of CPU_UP_CANCELED, or b) Use a special notifier events like LOCK_ACQUIRE/RELEASE as Gautham was using in his experiments, or c) Do not send CPU_UP_CANCELED to a subsystem which did not receive CPU_UP_PREPARE. I would prefer c). Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-06 20:32:14 -08:00
[PATCH] mm: slab: eliminate lock_cpu_hotplug from slab Here's an attempt towards doing away with lock_cpu_hotplug in the slab subsystem. This approach also fixes a bug which shows up when cpus are being offlined/onlined and slab caches are being tuned simultaneously. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116098888100481&w=2 The patch has been stress tested overnight on a 2 socket 4 core AMD box with repeated cpu online and offline, while dbench and kernbench process are running, and slab caches being tuned at the same time. There were no lockdep warnings either. (This test on 2,6.18 as 2.6.19-rc crashes at __drain_pages http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116172164217678&w=2 ) The approach here is to hold cache_chain_mutex from CPU_UP_PREPARE until CPU_ONLINE (similar in approach as worqueue_mutex) . Slab code sensitive to cpu_online_map (kmem_cache_create, kmem_cache_destroy, slabinfo_write, __cache_shrink) is already serialized with cache_chain_mutex. (This patch lengthens cache_chain_mutex hold time at kmem_cache_destroy to cover this). This patch also takes the cache_chain_sem at kmem_cache_shrink to protect sanity of cpu_online_map at __cache_shrink, as viewed by slab. (kmem_cache_shrink->__cache_shrink->drain_cpu_caches). But, really, kmem_cache_shrink is used at just one place in the acpi subsystem! Do we really need to keep kmem_cache_shrink at all? Another note. Looks like a cpu hotplug event can send CPU_UP_CANCELED to a registered subsystem even if the subsystem did not receive CPU_UP_PREPARE. This could be due to a subsystem registered for notification earlier than the current subsystem crapping out with NOTIFY_BAD. Badness can occur with in the CPU_UP_CANCELED code path at slab if this happens (The same would apply for workqueue.c as well). To overcome this, we might have to use either a) a per subsystem flag and avoid handling of CPU_UP_CANCELED, or b) Use a special notifier events like LOCK_ACQUIRE/RELEASE as Gautham was using in his experiments, or c) Do not send CPU_UP_CANCELED to a subsystem which did not receive CPU_UP_PREPARE. I would prefer c). Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-06 20:32:14 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: better fallback allocation behavior Currently we simply attempt to allocate from all allowed nodes using GFP_THISNODE. However, GFP_THISNODE does not do reclaim (it wont do any at all if the recent GFP_THISNODE patch is accepted). If we truly run out of memory in the whole system then fallback_alloc may return NULL although memory may still be available if we would perform more thorough reclaim. This patch changes fallback_alloc() so that we first only inspect all the per node queues for available slabs. If we find any then we allocate from those. This avoids slab fragmentation by first getting rid of all partial allocated slabs on every node before allocating new memory. If we cannot satisfy the allocation from any per node queue then we extend a slab. We now call into the page allocator without specifying GFP_THISNODE. The page allocator will then implement its own fallback (in the given cpuset context), perform necessary reclaim (again considering not a single node but the whole set of allowed nodes) and then return pages for a new slab. We identify from which node the pages were allocated and then insert the pages into the corresponding per node structure. In order to do so we need to modify cache_grow() to take a parameter that specifies the new slab. kmem_getpages() can no longer set the GFP_THISNODE flag since we need to be able to use kmem_getpage to allocate from an arbitrary node. GFP_THISNODE needs to be specified when calling cache_grow(). One key advantage is that the decision from which node to allocate new memory is removed from slab fallback processing. The patch allows to go back to use of the page allocators fallback/reclaim logic. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-06 20:33:29 -08:00
Categorize GFP flags The function of GFP_LEVEL_MASK seems to be unclear. In order to clear up the mystery we get rid of it and replace GFP_LEVEL_MASK with 3 sets of GFP flags: GFP_RECLAIM_MASK Flags used to control page allocator reclaim behavior. GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK Flags used to limit where allocations can occur. GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK Flags that the slab allocator BUG()s on. These replace the uses of GFP_LEVEL mask in the slab allocators and in vmalloc.c. The use of the flags not included in these sets may occur as a result of a slab allocation standing in for a page allocation when constructing scatter gather lists. Extraneous flags are cleared and not passed through to the page allocator. __GFP_MOVABLE/RECLAIMABLE, __GFP_COLD and __GFP_COMP will now be ignored if passed to a slab allocator. Change the allocation of allocator meta data in SLAB and vmalloc to not pass through flags listed in GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK. SLAB already removes the __GFP_THISNODE flag for such allocations. Generalize that to also cover vmalloc. The use of GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK also includes __GFP_HARDWALL. The impact of allocator metadata placement on access latency to the cachelines of the object itself is minimal since metadata is only referenced on alloc and free. The attempt is still made to place the meta data optimally but we consistently allow fallback both in SLAB and vmalloc (SLUB does not need to allocate metadata like that). Allocator metadata may serve multiple in kernel users and thus should not be subject to the limitations arising from a single allocation context. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fallback_alloc()] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 01:25:41 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
Categorize GFP flags The function of GFP_LEVEL_MASK seems to be unclear. In order to clear up the mystery we get rid of it and replace GFP_LEVEL_MASK with 3 sets of GFP flags: GFP_RECLAIM_MASK Flags used to control page allocator reclaim behavior. GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK Flags used to limit where allocations can occur. GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK Flags that the slab allocator BUG()s on. These replace the uses of GFP_LEVEL mask in the slab allocators and in vmalloc.c. The use of the flags not included in these sets may occur as a result of a slab allocation standing in for a page allocation when constructing scatter gather lists. Extraneous flags are cleared and not passed through to the page allocator. __GFP_MOVABLE/RECLAIMABLE, __GFP_COLD and __GFP_COMP will now be ignored if passed to a slab allocator. Change the allocation of allocator meta data in SLAB and vmalloc to not pass through flags listed in GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK. SLAB already removes the __GFP_THISNODE flag for such allocations. Generalize that to also cover vmalloc. The use of GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK also includes __GFP_HARDWALL. The impact of allocator metadata placement on access latency to the cachelines of the object itself is minimal since metadata is only referenced on alloc and free. The attempt is still made to place the meta data optimally but we consistently allow fallback both in SLAB and vmalloc (SLUB does not need to allocate metadata like that). Allocator metadata may serve multiple in kernel users and thus should not be subject to the limitations arising from a single allocation context. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fallback_alloc()] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 01:25:41 -07:00
Increase slab redzone to 64bits There are two problems with the existing redzone implementation. Firstly, it's causing misalignment of structures which contain a 64-bit integer, such as netfilter's 'struct ipt_entry' -- causing netfilter modules to fail to load because of the misalignment. (In particular, the first check in net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c::check_entry_size_and_hooks()) On ppc32 and sparc32, amongst others, __alignof__(uint64_t) == 8. With slab debugging, we use 32-bit redzones. And allocated slab objects aren't sufficiently aligned to hold a structure containing a uint64_t. By _just_ setting ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to __alignof__(u64) we'd disable redzone checks on those architectures. By using 64-bit redzones we avoid that loss of debugging, and also fix the other problem while we're at it. When investigating this, I noticed that on 64-bit platforms we're using a 32-bit value of RED_ACTIVE/RED_INACTIVE in the 64-bit memory location set aside for the redzone. Which means that the four bytes immediately before or after the allocated object at 0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00 for LE and BE machines, respectively. Which is probably not the most useful choice of poison value. One way to fix both of those at once is just to switch to 64-bit redzones in all cases. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 00:22:59 -07:00
Increase slab redzone to 64bits There are two problems with the existing redzone implementation. Firstly, it's causing misalignment of structures which contain a 64-bit integer, such as netfilter's 'struct ipt_entry' -- causing netfilter modules to fail to load because of the misalignment. (In particular, the first check in net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c::check_entry_size_and_hooks()) On ppc32 and sparc32, amongst others, __alignof__(uint64_t) == 8. With slab debugging, we use 32-bit redzones. And allocated slab objects aren't sufficiently aligned to hold a structure containing a uint64_t. By _just_ setting ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to __alignof__(u64) we'd disable redzone checks on those architectures. By using 64-bit redzones we avoid that loss of debugging, and also fix the other problem while we're at it. When investigating this, I noticed that on 64-bit platforms we're using a 32-bit value of RED_ACTIVE/RED_INACTIVE in the 64-bit memory location set aside for the redzone. Which means that the four bytes immediately before or after the allocated object at 0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00 for LE and BE machines, respectively. Which is probably not the most useful choice of poison value. One way to fix both of those at once is just to switch to 64-bit redzones in all cases. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 00:22:59 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
numa: slab: use numa_mem_id() for slab local memory node Example usage of generic "numa_mem_id()": The mainline slab code, since ~ 2.6.19, does not handle memoryless nodes well. Specifically, the "fast path"--____cache_alloc()--will never succeed as slab doesn't cache offnode object on the per cpu queues, and for memoryless nodes, all memory will be "off node" relative to numa_node_id(). This adds significant overhead to all kmem cache allocations, incurring a significant regression relative to earlier kernels [from before slab.c was reorganized]. This patch uses the generic topology function "numa_mem_id()" to return the "effective local memory node" for the calling context. This is the first node in the local node's generic fallback zonelist-- the same node that "local" mempolicy-based allocations would use. This lets slab cache these "local" allocations and avoid fallback/refill on every allocation. N.B.: Slab will need to handle node and memory hotplug events that could change the value returned by numa_mem_id() for any given node if recent changes to address memory hotplug don't already address this. E.g., flush all per cpu slab queues before rebuilding the zonelists while the "machine" is held in the stopped state. Performance impact on "hackbench 400 process 200" 2.6.34-rc3-mmotm-100405-1609 no-patch this-patch ia64 no memoryless nodes [avg of 10]: 11.713 11.637 ~0.65 diff ia64 cpus all on memless nodes [10]: 228.259 26.484 ~8.6x speedup The slowdown of the patched kernel from ~12 sec to ~28 seconds when configured with memoryless nodes is the result of all cpus allocating from a single node's mm pagepool. The cache lines of the single node are distributed/interleaved over the memory of the real physical nodes, but the zone lock, list heads, ... of the single node with memory still each live in a single cache line that is accessed from all processors. x86_64 [8x6 AMD] [avg of 40]: 2.883 2.845 Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-26 14:45:03 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
[PATCH] slab: better fallback allocation behavior Currently we simply attempt to allocate from all allowed nodes using GFP_THISNODE. However, GFP_THISNODE does not do reclaim (it wont do any at all if the recent GFP_THISNODE patch is accepted). If we truly run out of memory in the whole system then fallback_alloc may return NULL although memory may still be available if we would perform more thorough reclaim. This patch changes fallback_alloc() so that we first only inspect all the per node queues for available slabs. If we find any then we allocate from those. This avoids slab fragmentation by first getting rid of all partial allocated slabs on every node before allocating new memory. If we cannot satisfy the allocation from any per node queue then we extend a slab. We now call into the page allocator without specifying GFP_THISNODE. The page allocator will then implement its own fallback (in the given cpuset context), perform necessary reclaim (again considering not a single node but the whole set of allowed nodes) and then return pages for a new slab. We identify from which node the pages were allocated and then insert the pages into the corresponding per node structure. In order to do so we need to modify cache_grow() to take a parameter that specifies the new slab. kmem_getpages() can no longer set the GFP_THISNODE flag since we need to be able to use kmem_getpage to allocate from an arbitrary node. GFP_THISNODE needs to be specified when calling cache_grow(). One key advantage is that the decision from which node to allocate new memory is removed from slab fallback processing. The patch allows to go back to use of the page allocators fallback/reclaim logic. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-06 20:33:29 -08:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
Increase slab redzone to 64bits There are two problems with the existing redzone implementation. Firstly, it's causing misalignment of structures which contain a 64-bit integer, such as netfilter's 'struct ipt_entry' -- causing netfilter modules to fail to load because of the misalignment. (In particular, the first check in net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c::check_entry_size_and_hooks()) On ppc32 and sparc32, amongst others, __alignof__(uint64_t) == 8. With slab debugging, we use 32-bit redzones. And allocated slab objects aren't sufficiently aligned to hold a structure containing a uint64_t. By _just_ setting ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to __alignof__(u64) we'd disable redzone checks on those architectures. By using 64-bit redzones we avoid that loss of debugging, and also fix the other problem while we're at it. When investigating this, I noticed that on 64-bit platforms we're using a 32-bit value of RED_ACTIVE/RED_INACTIVE in the 64-bit memory location set aside for the redzone. Which means that the four bytes immediately before or after the allocated object at 0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00 for LE and BE machines, respectively. Which is probably not the most useful choice of poison value. One way to fix both of those at once is just to switch to 64-bit redzones in all cases. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 00:22:59 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] GFP_THISNODE for the slab allocator This patch insures that the slab node lists in the NUMA case only contain slabs that belong to that specific node. All slab allocations use GFP_THISNODE when calling into the page allocator. If an allocation fails then we fall back in the slab allocator according to the zonelists appropriate for a certain context. This allows a replication of the behavior of alloc_pages and alloc_pages node in the slab layer. Currently allocations requested from the page allocator may be redirected via cpusets to other nodes. This results in remote pages on nodelists and that in turn results in interrupt latency issues during cache draining. Plus the slab is handing out memory as local when it is really remote. Fallback for slab memory allocations will occur within the slab allocator and not in the page allocator. This is necessary in order to be able to use the existing pools of objects on the nodes that we fall back to before adding more pages to a slab. The fallback function insures that the nodes we fall back to obey cpuset restrictions of the current context. We do not allocate objects from outside of the current cpuset context like before. Note that the implementation of locality constraints within the slab allocator requires importing logic from the page allocator. This is a mischmash that is not that great. Other allocators (uncached allocator, vmalloc, huge pages) face similar problems and have similar minimal reimplementations of the basic fallback logic of the page allocator. There is another way of implementing a slab by avoiding per node lists (see modular slab) but this wont work within the existing slab. V1->V2: - Use NUMA_BUILD to avoid #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA - Exploit GFP_THISNODE being 0 in the NON_NUMA case to avoid another #ifdef [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 01:50:08 -07:00
numa: slab: use numa_mem_id() for slab local memory node Example usage of generic "numa_mem_id()": The mainline slab code, since ~ 2.6.19, does not handle memoryless nodes well. Specifically, the "fast path"--____cache_alloc()--will never succeed as slab doesn't cache offnode object on the per cpu queues, and for memoryless nodes, all memory will be "off node" relative to numa_node_id(). This adds significant overhead to all kmem cache allocations, incurring a significant regression relative to earlier kernels [from before slab.c was reorganized]. This patch uses the generic topology function "numa_mem_id()" to return the "effective local memory node" for the calling context. This is the first node in the local node's generic fallback zonelist-- the same node that "local" mempolicy-based allocations would use. This lets slab cache these "local" allocations and avoid fallback/refill on every allocation. N.B.: Slab will need to handle node and memory hotplug events that could change the value returned by numa_mem_id() for any given node if recent changes to address memory hotplug don't already address this. E.g., flush all per cpu slab queues before rebuilding the zonelists while the "machine" is held in the stopped state. Performance impact on "hackbench 400 process 200" 2.6.34-rc3-mmotm-100405-1609 no-patch this-patch ia64 no memoryless nodes [avg of 10]: 11.713 11.637 ~0.65 diff ia64 cpus all on memless nodes [10]: 228.259 26.484 ~8.6x speedup The slowdown of the patched kernel from ~12 sec to ~28 seconds when configured with memoryless nodes is the result of all cpus allocating from a single node's mm pagepool. The cache lines of the single node are distributed/interleaved over the memory of the real physical nodes, but the zone lock, list heads, ... of the single node with memory still each live in a single cache line that is accessed from all processors. x86_64 [8x6 AMD] [avg of 40]: 2.883 2.845 Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-26 14:45:03 -07:00
cpusets: new round-robin rotor for SLAB allocations We have observed several workloads running on multi-node systems where memory is assigned unevenly across the nodes in the system. There are numerous reasons for this but one is the round-robin rotor in cpuset_mem_spread_node(). For example, a simple test that writes a multi-page file will allocate pages on nodes 0 2 4 6 ... Odd nodes are skipped. (Sometimes it allocates on odd nodes & skips even nodes). An example is shown below. The program "lfile" writes a file consisting of 10 pages. The program then mmaps the file & uses get_mempolicy(..., MPOL_F_NODE) to determine the nodes where the file pages were allocated. The output is shown below: # ./lfile allocated on nodes: 2 4 6 0 1 2 6 0 2 There is a single rotor that is used for allocating both file pages & slab pages. Writing the file allocates both a data page & a slab page (buffer_head). This advances the RR rotor 2 nodes for each page allocated. A quick confirmation seems to confirm this is the cause of the uneven allocation: # echo 0 >/dev/cpuset/memory_spread_slab # ./lfile allocated on nodes: 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 This patch introduces a second rotor that is used for slab allocations. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-26 14:42:49 -07:00
[PATCH] GFP_THISNODE for the slab allocator This patch insures that the slab node lists in the NUMA case only contain slabs that belong to that specific node. All slab allocations use GFP_THISNODE when calling into the page allocator. If an allocation fails then we fall back in the slab allocator according to the zonelists appropriate for a certain context. This allows a replication of the behavior of alloc_pages and alloc_pages node in the slab layer. Currently allocations requested from the page allocator may be redirected via cpusets to other nodes. This results in remote pages on nodelists and that in turn results in interrupt latency issues during cache draining. Plus the slab is handing out memory as local when it is really remote. Fallback for slab memory allocations will occur within the slab allocator and not in the page allocator. This is necessary in order to be able to use the existing pools of objects on the nodes that we fall back to before adding more pages to a slab. The fallback function insures that the nodes we fall back to obey cpuset restrictions of the current context. We do not allocate objects from outside of the current cpuset context like before. Note that the implementation of locality constraints within the slab allocator requires importing logic from the page allocator. This is a mischmash that is not that great. Other allocators (uncached allocator, vmalloc, huge pages) face similar problems and have similar minimal reimplementations of the basic fallback logic of the page allocator. There is another way of implementing a slab by avoiding per node lists (see modular slab) but this wont work within the existing slab. V1->V2: - Use NUMA_BUILD to avoid #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA - Exploit GFP_THISNODE being 0 in the NON_NUMA case to avoid another #ifdef [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 01:50:08 -07:00
[PATCH] slab: better fallback allocation behavior Currently we simply attempt to allocate from all allowed nodes using GFP_THISNODE. However, GFP_THISNODE does not do reclaim (it wont do any at all if the recent GFP_THISNODE patch is accepted). If we truly run out of memory in the whole system then fallback_alloc may return NULL although memory may still be available if we would perform more thorough reclaim. This patch changes fallback_alloc() so that we first only inspect all the per node queues for available slabs. If we find any then we allocate from those. This avoids slab fragmentation by first getting rid of all partial allocated slabs on every node before allocating new memory. If we cannot satisfy the allocation from any per node queue then we extend a slab. We now call into the page allocator without specifying GFP_THISNODE. The page allocator will then implement its own fallback (in the given cpuset context), perform necessary reclaim (again considering not a single node but the whole set of allowed nodes) and then return pages for a new slab. We identify from which node the pages were allocated and then insert the pages into the corresponding per node structure. In order to do so we need to modify cache_grow() to take a parameter that specifies the new slab. kmem_getpages() can no longer set the GFP_THISNODE flag since we need to be able to use kmem_getpage to allocate from an arbitrary node. GFP_THISNODE needs to be specified when calling cache_grow(). One key advantage is that the decision from which node to allocate new memory is removed from slab fallback processing. The patch allows to go back to use of the page allocators fallback/reclaim logic. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-06 20:33:29 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: better fallback allocation behavior Currently we simply attempt to allocate from all allowed nodes using GFP_THISNODE. However, GFP_THISNODE does not do reclaim (it wont do any at all if the recent GFP_THISNODE patch is accepted). If we truly run out of memory in the whole system then fallback_alloc may return NULL although memory may still be available if we would perform more thorough reclaim. This patch changes fallback_alloc() so that we first only inspect all the per node queues for available slabs. If we find any then we allocate from those. This avoids slab fragmentation by first getting rid of all partial allocated slabs on every node before allocating new memory. If we cannot satisfy the allocation from any per node queue then we extend a slab. We now call into the page allocator without specifying GFP_THISNODE. The page allocator will then implement its own fallback (in the given cpuset context), perform necessary reclaim (again considering not a single node but the whole set of allowed nodes) and then return pages for a new slab. We identify from which node the pages were allocated and then insert the pages into the corresponding per node structure. In order to do so we need to modify cache_grow() to take a parameter that specifies the new slab. kmem_getpages() can no longer set the GFP_THISNODE flag since we need to be able to use kmem_getpage to allocate from an arbitrary node. GFP_THISNODE needs to be specified when calling cache_grow(). One key advantage is that the decision from which node to allocate new memory is removed from slab fallback processing. The patch allows to go back to use of the page allocators fallback/reclaim logic. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-06 20:33:29 -08:00
[PATCH] GFP_THISNODE for the slab allocator This patch insures that the slab node lists in the NUMA case only contain slabs that belong to that specific node. All slab allocations use GFP_THISNODE when calling into the page allocator. If an allocation fails then we fall back in the slab allocator according to the zonelists appropriate for a certain context. This allows a replication of the behavior of alloc_pages and alloc_pages node in the slab layer. Currently allocations requested from the page allocator may be redirected via cpusets to other nodes. This results in remote pages on nodelists and that in turn results in interrupt latency issues during cache draining. Plus the slab is handing out memory as local when it is really remote. Fallback for slab memory allocations will occur within the slab allocator and not in the page allocator. This is necessary in order to be able to use the existing pools of objects on the nodes that we fall back to before adding more pages to a slab. The fallback function insures that the nodes we fall back to obey cpuset restrictions of the current context. We do not allocate objects from outside of the current cpuset context like before. Note that the implementation of locality constraints within the slab allocator requires importing logic from the page allocator. This is a mischmash that is not that great. Other allocators (uncached allocator, vmalloc, huge pages) face similar problems and have similar minimal reimplementations of the basic fallback logic of the page allocator. There is another way of implementing a slab by avoiding per node lists (see modular slab) but this wont work within the existing slab. V1->V2: - Use NUMA_BUILD to avoid #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA - Exploit GFP_THISNODE being 0 in the NON_NUMA case to avoid another #ifdef [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 01:50:08 -07:00
[PATCH] GFP_THISNODE for the slab allocator This patch insures that the slab node lists in the NUMA case only contain slabs that belong to that specific node. All slab allocations use GFP_THISNODE when calling into the page allocator. If an allocation fails then we fall back in the slab allocator according to the zonelists appropriate for a certain context. This allows a replication of the behavior of alloc_pages and alloc_pages node in the slab layer. Currently allocations requested from the page allocator may be redirected via cpusets to other nodes. This results in remote pages on nodelists and that in turn results in interrupt latency issues during cache draining. Plus the slab is handing out memory as local when it is really remote. Fallback for slab memory allocations will occur within the slab allocator and not in the page allocator. This is necessary in order to be able to use the existing pools of objects on the nodes that we fall back to before adding more pages to a slab. The fallback function insures that the nodes we fall back to obey cpuset restrictions of the current context. We do not allocate objects from outside of the current cpuset context like before. Note that the implementation of locality constraints within the slab allocator requires importing logic from the page allocator. This is a mischmash that is not that great. Other allocators (uncached allocator, vmalloc, huge pages) face similar problems and have similar minimal reimplementations of the basic fallback logic of the page allocator. There is another way of implementing a slab by avoiding per node lists (see modular slab) but this wont work within the existing slab. V1->V2: - Use NUMA_BUILD to avoid #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA - Exploit GFP_THISNODE being 0 in the NON_NUMA case to avoid another #ifdef [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 01:50:08 -07:00
mm: have zonelist contains structs with both a zone pointer and zone_idx Filtering zonelists requires very frequent use of zone_idx(). This is costly as it involves a lookup of another structure and a substraction operation. As the zone_idx is often required, it should be quickly accessible. The node idx could also be stored here if it was found that accessing zone->node is significant which may be the case on workloads where nodemasks are heavily used. This patch introduces a struct zoneref to store a zone pointer and a zone index. The zonelist then consists of an array of these struct zonerefs which are looked up as necessary. Helpers are given for accessing the zone index as well as the node index. [kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: Suggested struct zoneref instead of embedding information in pointers] [hugh@veritas.com: mm-have-zonelist: fix memcg ooms] [hugh@veritas.com: just return do_try_to_free_pages] [hugh@veritas.com: do_try_to_free_pages gfp_mask redundant] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 02:12:17 -07:00
[PATCH] GFP_THISNODE for the slab allocator This patch insures that the slab node lists in the NUMA case only contain slabs that belong to that specific node. All slab allocations use GFP_THISNODE when calling into the page allocator. If an allocation fails then we fall back in the slab allocator according to the zonelists appropriate for a certain context. This allows a replication of the behavior of alloc_pages and alloc_pages node in the slab layer. Currently allocations requested from the page allocator may be redirected via cpusets to other nodes. This results in remote pages on nodelists and that in turn results in interrupt latency issues during cache draining. Plus the slab is handing out memory as local when it is really remote. Fallback for slab memory allocations will occur within the slab allocator and not in the page allocator. This is necessary in order to be able to use the existing pools of objects on the nodes that we fall back to before adding more pages to a slab. The fallback function insures that the nodes we fall back to obey cpuset restrictions of the current context. We do not allocate objects from outside of the current cpuset context like before. Note that the implementation of locality constraints within the slab allocator requires importing logic from the page allocator. This is a mischmash that is not that great. Other allocators (uncached allocator, vmalloc, huge pages) face similar problems and have similar minimal reimplementations of the basic fallback logic of the page allocator. There is another way of implementing a slab by avoiding per node lists (see modular slab) but this wont work within the existing slab. V1->V2: - Use NUMA_BUILD to avoid #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA - Exploit GFP_THISNODE being 0 in the NON_NUMA case to avoid another #ifdef [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 01:50:08 -07:00
[PATCH] slab: better fallback allocation behavior Currently we simply attempt to allocate from all allowed nodes using GFP_THISNODE. However, GFP_THISNODE does not do reclaim (it wont do any at all if the recent GFP_THISNODE patch is accepted). If we truly run out of memory in the whole system then fallback_alloc may return NULL although memory may still be available if we would perform more thorough reclaim. This patch changes fallback_alloc() so that we first only inspect all the per node queues for available slabs. If we find any then we allocate from those. This avoids slab fragmentation by first getting rid of all partial allocated slabs on every node before allocating new memory. If we cannot satisfy the allocation from any per node queue then we extend a slab. We now call into the page allocator without specifying GFP_THISNODE. The page allocator will then implement its own fallback (in the given cpuset context), perform necessary reclaim (again considering not a single node but the whole set of allowed nodes) and then return pages for a new slab. We identify from which node the pages were allocated and then insert the pages into the corresponding per node structure. In order to do so we need to modify cache_grow() to take a parameter that specifies the new slab. kmem_getpages() can no longer set the GFP_THISNODE flag since we need to be able to use kmem_getpage to allocate from an arbitrary node. GFP_THISNODE needs to be specified when calling cache_grow(). One key advantage is that the decision from which node to allocate new memory is removed from slab fallback processing. The patch allows to go back to use of the page allocators fallback/reclaim logic. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-06 20:33:29 -08:00
cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3 Commit c0ff7453bb5c ("cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's mems") wins a super prize for the largest number of memory barriers entered into fast paths for one commit. [get|put]_mems_allowed is incredibly heavy with pairs of full memory barriers inserted into a number of hot paths. This was detected while investigating at large page allocator slowdown introduced some time after 2.6.32. The largest portion of this overhead was shown by oprofile to be at an mfence introduced by this commit into the page allocator hot path. For extra style points, the commit introduced the use of yield() in an implementation of what looks like a spinning mutex. This patch replaces the full memory barriers on both read and write sides with a sequence counter with just read barriers on the fast path side. This is much cheaper on some architectures, including x86. The main bulk of the patch is the retry logic if the nodemask changes in a manner that can cause a false failure. While updating the nodemask, a check is made to see if a false failure is a risk. If it is, the sequence number gets bumped and parallel allocators will briefly stall while the nodemask update takes place. In a page fault test microbenchmark, oprofile samples from __alloc_pages_nodemask went from 4.53% of all samples to 1.15%. The actual results were 3.3.0-rc3 3.3.0-rc3 rc3-vanilla nobarrier-v2r1 Clients 1 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.08 (-14.19%) Clients 2 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 2.72%) Clients 4 UserTime 0.08 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 3.29%) Clients 1 SysTime 0.70 ( 0.00%) 0.65 ( 6.65%) Clients 2 SysTime 0.85 ( 0.00%) 0.82 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 SysTime 1.41 ( 0.00%) 1.41 ( 0.32%) Clients 1 WallTime 0.77 ( 0.00%) 0.74 ( 4.19%) Clients 2 WallTime 0.47 ( 0.00%) 0.45 ( 3.73%) Clients 4 WallTime 0.38 ( 0.00%) 0.37 ( 1.58%) Clients 1 Flt/sec/cpu 497620.28 ( 0.00%) 520294.53 ( 4.56%) Clients 2 Flt/sec/cpu 414639.05 ( 0.00%) 429882.01 ( 3.68%) Clients 4 Flt/sec/cpu 257959.16 ( 0.00%) 258761.48 ( 0.31%) Clients 1 Flt/sec 495161.39 ( 0.00%) 517292.87 ( 4.47%) Clients 2 Flt/sec 820325.95 ( 0.00%) 850289.77 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 Flt/sec 1020068.93 ( 0.00%) 1022674.06 ( 0.26%) MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 135.68 132.17 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 164.2 160.13 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 123.46 120.87 The overall improvement is small but the System CPU time is much improved and roughly in correlation to what oprofile reported (these performance figures are without profiling so skew is expected). The actual number of page faults is noticeably improved. For benchmarks like kernel builds, the overall benefit is marginal but the system CPU time is slightly reduced. To test the actual bug the commit fixed I opened two terminals. The first ran within a cpuset and continually ran a small program that faulted 100M of anonymous data. In a second window, the nodemask of the cpuset was continually randomised in a loop. Without the commit, the program would fail every so often (usually within 10 seconds) and obviously with the commit everything worked fine. With this patch applied, it also worked fine so the fix should be functionally equivalent. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-21 16:34:11 -07:00
Categorize GFP flags The function of GFP_LEVEL_MASK seems to be unclear. In order to clear up the mystery we get rid of it and replace GFP_LEVEL_MASK with 3 sets of GFP flags: GFP_RECLAIM_MASK Flags used to control page allocator reclaim behavior. GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK Flags used to limit where allocations can occur. GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK Flags that the slab allocator BUG()s on. These replace the uses of GFP_LEVEL mask in the slab allocators and in vmalloc.c. The use of the flags not included in these sets may occur as a result of a slab allocation standing in for a page allocation when constructing scatter gather lists. Extraneous flags are cleared and not passed through to the page allocator. __GFP_MOVABLE/RECLAIMABLE, __GFP_COLD and __GFP_COMP will now be ignored if passed to a slab allocator. Change the allocation of allocator meta data in SLAB and vmalloc to not pass through flags listed in GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK. SLAB already removes the __GFP_THISNODE flag for such allocations. Generalize that to also cover vmalloc. The use of GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK also includes __GFP_HARDWALL. The impact of allocator metadata placement on access latency to the cachelines of the object itself is minimal since metadata is only referenced on alloc and free. The attempt is still made to place the meta data optimally but we consistently allow fallback both in SLAB and vmalloc (SLUB does not need to allocate metadata like that). Allocator metadata may serve multiple in kernel users and thus should not be subject to the limitations arising from a single allocation context. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fallback_alloc()] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 01:25:41 -07:00
[PATCH] GFP_THISNODE for the slab allocator This patch insures that the slab node lists in the NUMA case only contain slabs that belong to that specific node. All slab allocations use GFP_THISNODE when calling into the page allocator. If an allocation fails then we fall back in the slab allocator according to the zonelists appropriate for a certain context. This allows a replication of the behavior of alloc_pages and alloc_pages node in the slab layer. Currently allocations requested from the page allocator may be redirected via cpusets to other nodes. This results in remote pages on nodelists and that in turn results in interrupt latency issues during cache draining. Plus the slab is handing out memory as local when it is really remote. Fallback for slab memory allocations will occur within the slab allocator and not in the page allocator. This is necessary in order to be able to use the existing pools of objects on the nodes that we fall back to before adding more pages to a slab. The fallback function insures that the nodes we fall back to obey cpuset restrictions of the current context. We do not allocate objects from outside of the current cpuset context like before. Note that the implementation of locality constraints within the slab allocator requires importing logic from the page allocator. This is a mischmash that is not that great. Other allocators (uncached allocator, vmalloc, huge pages) face similar problems and have similar minimal reimplementations of the basic fallback logic of the page allocator. There is another way of implementing a slab by avoiding per node lists (see modular slab) but this wont work within the existing slab. V1->V2: - Use NUMA_BUILD to avoid #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA - Exploit GFP_THISNODE being 0 in the NON_NUMA case to avoid another #ifdef [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 01:50:08 -07:00
cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3 Commit c0ff7453bb5c ("cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's mems") wins a super prize for the largest number of memory barriers entered into fast paths for one commit. [get|put]_mems_allowed is incredibly heavy with pairs of full memory barriers inserted into a number of hot paths. This was detected while investigating at large page allocator slowdown introduced some time after 2.6.32. The largest portion of this overhead was shown by oprofile to be at an mfence introduced by this commit into the page allocator hot path. For extra style points, the commit introduced the use of yield() in an implementation of what looks like a spinning mutex. This patch replaces the full memory barriers on both read and write sides with a sequence counter with just read barriers on the fast path side. This is much cheaper on some architectures, including x86. The main bulk of the patch is the retry logic if the nodemask changes in a manner that can cause a false failure. While updating the nodemask, a check is made to see if a false failure is a risk. If it is, the sequence number gets bumped and parallel allocators will briefly stall while the nodemask update takes place. In a page fault test microbenchmark, oprofile samples from __alloc_pages_nodemask went from 4.53% of all samples to 1.15%. The actual results were 3.3.0-rc3 3.3.0-rc3 rc3-vanilla nobarrier-v2r1 Clients 1 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.08 (-14.19%) Clients 2 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 2.72%) Clients 4 UserTime 0.08 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 3.29%) Clients 1 SysTime 0.70 ( 0.00%) 0.65 ( 6.65%) Clients 2 SysTime 0.85 ( 0.00%) 0.82 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 SysTime 1.41 ( 0.00%) 1.41 ( 0.32%) Clients 1 WallTime 0.77 ( 0.00%) 0.74 ( 4.19%) Clients 2 WallTime 0.47 ( 0.00%) 0.45 ( 3.73%) Clients 4 WallTime 0.38 ( 0.00%) 0.37 ( 1.58%) Clients 1 Flt/sec/cpu 497620.28 ( 0.00%) 520294.53 ( 4.56%) Clients 2 Flt/sec/cpu 414639.05 ( 0.00%) 429882.01 ( 3.68%) Clients 4 Flt/sec/cpu 257959.16 ( 0.00%) 258761.48 ( 0.31%) Clients 1 Flt/sec 495161.39 ( 0.00%) 517292.87 ( 4.47%) Clients 2 Flt/sec 820325.95 ( 0.00%) 850289.77 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 Flt/sec 1020068.93 ( 0.00%) 1022674.06 ( 0.26%) MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 135.68 132.17 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 164.2 160.13 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 123.46 120.87 The overall improvement is small but the System CPU time is much improved and roughly in correlation to what oprofile reported (these performance figures are without profiling so skew is expected). The actual number of page faults is noticeably improved. For benchmarks like kernel builds, the overall benefit is marginal but the system CPU time is slightly reduced. To test the actual bug the commit fixed I opened two terminals. The first ran within a cpuset and continually ran a small program that faulted 100M of anonymous data. In a second window, the nodemask of the cpuset was continually randomised in a loop. Without the commit, the program would fail every so often (usually within 10 seconds) and obviously with the commit everything worked fine. With this patch applied, it also worked fine so the fix should be functionally equivalent. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-21 16:34:11 -07:00
cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3 Commit c0ff7453bb5c ("cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's mems") wins a super prize for the largest number of memory barriers entered into fast paths for one commit. [get|put]_mems_allowed is incredibly heavy with pairs of full memory barriers inserted into a number of hot paths. This was detected while investigating at large page allocator slowdown introduced some time after 2.6.32. The largest portion of this overhead was shown by oprofile to be at an mfence introduced by this commit into the page allocator hot path. For extra style points, the commit introduced the use of yield() in an implementation of what looks like a spinning mutex. This patch replaces the full memory barriers on both read and write sides with a sequence counter with just read barriers on the fast path side. This is much cheaper on some architectures, including x86. The main bulk of the patch is the retry logic if the nodemask changes in a manner that can cause a false failure. While updating the nodemask, a check is made to see if a false failure is a risk. If it is, the sequence number gets bumped and parallel allocators will briefly stall while the nodemask update takes place. In a page fault test microbenchmark, oprofile samples from __alloc_pages_nodemask went from 4.53% of all samples to 1.15%. The actual results were 3.3.0-rc3 3.3.0-rc3 rc3-vanilla nobarrier-v2r1 Clients 1 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.08 (-14.19%) Clients 2 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 2.72%) Clients 4 UserTime 0.08 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 3.29%) Clients 1 SysTime 0.70 ( 0.00%) 0.65 ( 6.65%) Clients 2 SysTime 0.85 ( 0.00%) 0.82 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 SysTime 1.41 ( 0.00%) 1.41 ( 0.32%) Clients 1 WallTime 0.77 ( 0.00%) 0.74 ( 4.19%) Clients 2 WallTime 0.47 ( 0.00%) 0.45 ( 3.73%) Clients 4 WallTime 0.38 ( 0.00%) 0.37 ( 1.58%) Clients 1 Flt/sec/cpu 497620.28 ( 0.00%) 520294.53 ( 4.56%) Clients 2 Flt/sec/cpu 414639.05 ( 0.00%) 429882.01 ( 3.68%) Clients 4 Flt/sec/cpu 257959.16 ( 0.00%) 258761.48 ( 0.31%) Clients 1 Flt/sec 495161.39 ( 0.00%) 517292.87 ( 4.47%) Clients 2 Flt/sec 820325.95 ( 0.00%) 850289.77 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 Flt/sec 1020068.93 ( 0.00%) 1022674.06 ( 0.26%) MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 135.68 132.17 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 164.2 160.13 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 123.46 120.87 The overall improvement is small but the System CPU time is much improved and roughly in correlation to what oprofile reported (these performance figures are without profiling so skew is expected). The actual number of page faults is noticeably improved. For benchmarks like kernel builds, the overall benefit is marginal but the system CPU time is slightly reduced. To test the actual bug the commit fixed I opened two terminals. The first ran within a cpuset and continually ran a small program that faulted 100M of anonymous data. In a second window, the nodemask of the cpuset was continually randomised in a loop. Without the commit, the program would fail every so often (usually within 10 seconds) and obviously with the commit everything worked fine. With this patch applied, it also worked fine so the fix should be functionally equivalent. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-21 16:34:11 -07:00
[PATCH] slab: better fallback allocation behavior Currently we simply attempt to allocate from all allowed nodes using GFP_THISNODE. However, GFP_THISNODE does not do reclaim (it wont do any at all if the recent GFP_THISNODE patch is accepted). If we truly run out of memory in the whole system then fallback_alloc may return NULL although memory may still be available if we would perform more thorough reclaim. This patch changes fallback_alloc() so that we first only inspect all the per node queues for available slabs. If we find any then we allocate from those. This avoids slab fragmentation by first getting rid of all partial allocated slabs on every node before allocating new memory. If we cannot satisfy the allocation from any per node queue then we extend a slab. We now call into the page allocator without specifying GFP_THISNODE. The page allocator will then implement its own fallback (in the given cpuset context), perform necessary reclaim (again considering not a single node but the whole set of allowed nodes) and then return pages for a new slab. We identify from which node the pages were allocated and then insert the pages into the corresponding per node structure. In order to do so we need to modify cache_grow() to take a parameter that specifies the new slab. kmem_getpages() can no longer set the GFP_THISNODE flag since we need to be able to use kmem_getpage to allocate from an arbitrary node. GFP_THISNODE needs to be specified when calling cache_grow(). One key advantage is that the decision from which node to allocate new memory is removed from slab fallback processing. The patch allows to go back to use of the page allocators fallback/reclaim logic. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-06 20:33:29 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: better fallback allocation behavior Currently we simply attempt to allocate from all allowed nodes using GFP_THISNODE. However, GFP_THISNODE does not do reclaim (it wont do any at all if the recent GFP_THISNODE patch is accepted). If we truly run out of memory in the whole system then fallback_alloc may return NULL although memory may still be available if we would perform more thorough reclaim. This patch changes fallback_alloc() so that we first only inspect all the per node queues for available slabs. If we find any then we allocate from those. This avoids slab fragmentation by first getting rid of all partial allocated slabs on every node before allocating new memory. If we cannot satisfy the allocation from any per node queue then we extend a slab. We now call into the page allocator without specifying GFP_THISNODE. The page allocator will then implement its own fallback (in the given cpuset context), perform necessary reclaim (again considering not a single node but the whole set of allowed nodes) and then return pages for a new slab. We identify from which node the pages were allocated and then insert the pages into the corresponding per node structure. In order to do so we need to modify cache_grow() to take a parameter that specifies the new slab. kmem_getpages() can no longer set the GFP_THISNODE flag since we need to be able to use kmem_getpage to allocate from an arbitrary node. GFP_THISNODE needs to be specified when calling cache_grow(). One key advantage is that the decision from which node to allocate new memory is removed from slab fallback processing. The patch allows to go back to use of the page allocators fallback/reclaim logic. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-06 20:33:29 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: better fallback allocation behavior Currently we simply attempt to allocate from all allowed nodes using GFP_THISNODE. However, GFP_THISNODE does not do reclaim (it wont do any at all if the recent GFP_THISNODE patch is accepted). If we truly run out of memory in the whole system then fallback_alloc may return NULL although memory may still be available if we would perform more thorough reclaim. This patch changes fallback_alloc() so that we first only inspect all the per node queues for available slabs. If we find any then we allocate from those. This avoids slab fragmentation by first getting rid of all partial allocated slabs on every node before allocating new memory. If we cannot satisfy the allocation from any per node queue then we extend a slab. We now call into the page allocator without specifying GFP_THISNODE. The page allocator will then implement its own fallback (in the given cpuset context), perform necessary reclaim (again considering not a single node but the whole set of allowed nodes) and then return pages for a new slab. We identify from which node the pages were allocated and then insert the pages into the corresponding per node structure. In order to do so we need to modify cache_grow() to take a parameter that specifies the new slab. kmem_getpages() can no longer set the GFP_THISNODE flag since we need to be able to use kmem_getpage to allocate from an arbitrary node. GFP_THISNODE needs to be specified when calling cache_grow(). One key advantage is that the decision from which node to allocate new memory is removed from slab fallback processing. The patch allows to go back to use of the page allocators fallback/reclaim logic. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-06 20:33:29 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: better fallback allocation behavior Currently we simply attempt to allocate from all allowed nodes using GFP_THISNODE. However, GFP_THISNODE does not do reclaim (it wont do any at all if the recent GFP_THISNODE patch is accepted). If we truly run out of memory in the whole system then fallback_alloc may return NULL although memory may still be available if we would perform more thorough reclaim. This patch changes fallback_alloc() so that we first only inspect all the per node queues for available slabs. If we find any then we allocate from those. This avoids slab fragmentation by first getting rid of all partial allocated slabs on every node before allocating new memory. If we cannot satisfy the allocation from any per node queue then we extend a slab. We now call into the page allocator without specifying GFP_THISNODE. The page allocator will then implement its own fallback (in the given cpuset context), perform necessary reclaim (again considering not a single node but the whole set of allowed nodes) and then return pages for a new slab. We identify from which node the pages were allocated and then insert the pages into the corresponding per node structure. In order to do so we need to modify cache_grow() to take a parameter that specifies the new slab. kmem_getpages() can no longer set the GFP_THISNODE flag since we need to be able to use kmem_getpage to allocate from an arbitrary node. GFP_THISNODE needs to be specified when calling cache_grow(). One key advantage is that the decision from which node to allocate new memory is removed from slab fallback processing. The patch allows to go back to use of the page allocators fallback/reclaim logic. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-06 20:33:29 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: better fallback allocation behavior Currently we simply attempt to allocate from all allowed nodes using GFP_THISNODE. However, GFP_THISNODE does not do reclaim (it wont do any at all if the recent GFP_THISNODE patch is accepted). If we truly run out of memory in the whole system then fallback_alloc may return NULL although memory may still be available if we would perform more thorough reclaim. This patch changes fallback_alloc() so that we first only inspect all the per node queues for available slabs. If we find any then we allocate from those. This avoids slab fragmentation by first getting rid of all partial allocated slabs on every node before allocating new memory. If we cannot satisfy the allocation from any per node queue then we extend a slab. We now call into the page allocator without specifying GFP_THISNODE. The page allocator will then implement its own fallback (in the given cpuset context), perform necessary reclaim (again considering not a single node but the whole set of allowed nodes) and then return pages for a new slab. We identify from which node the pages were allocated and then insert the pages into the corresponding per node structure. In order to do so we need to modify cache_grow() to take a parameter that specifies the new slab. kmem_getpages() can no longer set the GFP_THISNODE flag since we need to be able to use kmem_getpage to allocate from an arbitrary node. GFP_THISNODE needs to be specified when calling cache_grow(). One key advantage is that the decision from which node to allocate new memory is removed from slab fallback processing. The patch allows to go back to use of the page allocators fallback/reclaim logic. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-06 20:33:29 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: better fallback allocation behavior Currently we simply attempt to allocate from all allowed nodes using GFP_THISNODE. However, GFP_THISNODE does not do reclaim (it wont do any at all if the recent GFP_THISNODE patch is accepted). If we truly run out of memory in the whole system then fallback_alloc may return NULL although memory may still be available if we would perform more thorough reclaim. This patch changes fallback_alloc() so that we first only inspect all the per node queues for available slabs. If we find any then we allocate from those. This avoids slab fragmentation by first getting rid of all partial allocated slabs on every node before allocating new memory. If we cannot satisfy the allocation from any per node queue then we extend a slab. We now call into the page allocator without specifying GFP_THISNODE. The page allocator will then implement its own fallback (in the given cpuset context), perform necessary reclaim (again considering not a single node but the whole set of allowed nodes) and then return pages for a new slab. We identify from which node the pages were allocated and then insert the pages into the corresponding per node structure. In order to do so we need to modify cache_grow() to take a parameter that specifies the new slab. kmem_getpages() can no longer set the GFP_THISNODE flag since we need to be able to use kmem_getpage to allocate from an arbitrary node. GFP_THISNODE needs to be specified when calling cache_grow(). One key advantage is that the decision from which node to allocate new memory is removed from slab fallback processing. The patch allows to go back to use of the page allocators fallback/reclaim logic. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-06 20:33:29 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: better fallback allocation behavior Currently we simply attempt to allocate from all allowed nodes using GFP_THISNODE. However, GFP_THISNODE does not do reclaim (it wont do any at all if the recent GFP_THISNODE patch is accepted). If we truly run out of memory in the whole system then fallback_alloc may return NULL although memory may still be available if we would perform more thorough reclaim. This patch changes fallback_alloc() so that we first only inspect all the per node queues for available slabs. If we find any then we allocate from those. This avoids slab fragmentation by first getting rid of all partial allocated slabs on every node before allocating new memory. If we cannot satisfy the allocation from any per node queue then we extend a slab. We now call into the page allocator without specifying GFP_THISNODE. The page allocator will then implement its own fallback (in the given cpuset context), perform necessary reclaim (again considering not a single node but the whole set of allowed nodes) and then return pages for a new slab. We identify from which node the pages were allocated and then insert the pages into the corresponding per node structure. In order to do so we need to modify cache_grow() to take a parameter that specifies the new slab. kmem_getpages() can no longer set the GFP_THISNODE flag since we need to be able to use kmem_getpage to allocate from an arbitrary node. GFP_THISNODE needs to be specified when calling cache_grow(). One key advantage is that the decision from which node to allocate new memory is removed from slab fallback processing. The patch allows to go back to use of the page allocators fallback/reclaim logic. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-06 20:33:29 -08:00
cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3 Commit c0ff7453bb5c ("cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's mems") wins a super prize for the largest number of memory barriers entered into fast paths for one commit. [get|put]_mems_allowed is incredibly heavy with pairs of full memory barriers inserted into a number of hot paths. This was detected while investigating at large page allocator slowdown introduced some time after 2.6.32. The largest portion of this overhead was shown by oprofile to be at an mfence introduced by this commit into the page allocator hot path. For extra style points, the commit introduced the use of yield() in an implementation of what looks like a spinning mutex. This patch replaces the full memory barriers on both read and write sides with a sequence counter with just read barriers on the fast path side. This is much cheaper on some architectures, including x86. The main bulk of the patch is the retry logic if the nodemask changes in a manner that can cause a false failure. While updating the nodemask, a check is made to see if a false failure is a risk. If it is, the sequence number gets bumped and parallel allocators will briefly stall while the nodemask update takes place. In a page fault test microbenchmark, oprofile samples from __alloc_pages_nodemask went from 4.53% of all samples to 1.15%. The actual results were 3.3.0-rc3 3.3.0-rc3 rc3-vanilla nobarrier-v2r1 Clients 1 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.08 (-14.19%) Clients 2 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 2.72%) Clients 4 UserTime 0.08 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 3.29%) Clients 1 SysTime 0.70 ( 0.00%) 0.65 ( 6.65%) Clients 2 SysTime 0.85 ( 0.00%) 0.82 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 SysTime 1.41 ( 0.00%) 1.41 ( 0.32%) Clients 1 WallTime 0.77 ( 0.00%) 0.74 ( 4.19%) Clients 2 WallTime 0.47 ( 0.00%) 0.45 ( 3.73%) Clients 4 WallTime 0.38 ( 0.00%) 0.37 ( 1.58%) Clients 1 Flt/sec/cpu 497620.28 ( 0.00%) 520294.53 ( 4.56%) Clients 2 Flt/sec/cpu 414639.05 ( 0.00%) 429882.01 ( 3.68%) Clients 4 Flt/sec/cpu 257959.16 ( 0.00%) 258761.48 ( 0.31%) Clients 1 Flt/sec 495161.39 ( 0.00%) 517292.87 ( 4.47%) Clients 2 Flt/sec 820325.95 ( 0.00%) 850289.77 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 Flt/sec 1020068.93 ( 0.00%) 1022674.06 ( 0.26%) MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 135.68 132.17 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 164.2 160.13 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 123.46 120.87 The overall improvement is small but the System CPU time is much improved and roughly in correlation to what oprofile reported (these performance figures are without profiling so skew is expected). The actual number of page faults is noticeably improved. For benchmarks like kernel builds, the overall benefit is marginal but the system CPU time is slightly reduced. To test the actual bug the commit fixed I opened two terminals. The first ran within a cpuset and continually ran a small program that faulted 100M of anonymous data. In a second window, the nodemask of the cpuset was continually randomised in a loop. Without the commit, the program would fail every so often (usually within 10 seconds) and obviously with the commit everything worked fine. With this patch applied, it also worked fine so the fix should be functionally equivalent. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-21 16:34:11 -07:00
[PATCH] GFP_THISNODE for the slab allocator This patch insures that the slab node lists in the NUMA case only contain slabs that belong to that specific node. All slab allocations use GFP_THISNODE when calling into the page allocator. If an allocation fails then we fall back in the slab allocator according to the zonelists appropriate for a certain context. This allows a replication of the behavior of alloc_pages and alloc_pages node in the slab layer. Currently allocations requested from the page allocator may be redirected via cpusets to other nodes. This results in remote pages on nodelists and that in turn results in interrupt latency issues during cache draining. Plus the slab is handing out memory as local when it is really remote. Fallback for slab memory allocations will occur within the slab allocator and not in the page allocator. This is necessary in order to be able to use the existing pools of objects on the nodes that we fall back to before adding more pages to a slab. The fallback function insures that the nodes we fall back to obey cpuset restrictions of the current context. We do not allocate objects from outside of the current cpuset context like before. Note that the implementation of locality constraints within the slab allocator requires importing logic from the page allocator. This is a mischmash that is not that great. Other allocators (uncached allocator, vmalloc, huge pages) face similar problems and have similar minimal reimplementations of the basic fallback logic of the page allocator. There is another way of implementing a slab by avoiding per node lists (see modular slab) but this wont work within the existing slab. V1->V2: - Use NUMA_BUILD to avoid #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA - Exploit GFP_THISNODE being 0 in the NON_NUMA case to avoid another #ifdef [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 01:50:08 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] slab: better fallback allocation behavior Currently we simply attempt to allocate from all allowed nodes using GFP_THISNODE. However, GFP_THISNODE does not do reclaim (it wont do any at all if the recent GFP_THISNODE patch is accepted). If we truly run out of memory in the whole system then fallback_alloc may return NULL although memory may still be available if we would perform more thorough reclaim. This patch changes fallback_alloc() so that we first only inspect all the per node queues for available slabs. If we find any then we allocate from those. This avoids slab fragmentation by first getting rid of all partial allocated slabs on every node before allocating new memory. If we cannot satisfy the allocation from any per node queue then we extend a slab. We now call into the page allocator without specifying GFP_THISNODE. The page allocator will then implement its own fallback (in the given cpuset context), perform necessary reclaim (again considering not a single node but the whole set of allowed nodes) and then return pages for a new slab. We identify from which node the pages were allocated and then insert the pages into the corresponding per node structure. In order to do so we need to modify cache_grow() to take a parameter that specifies the new slab. kmem_getpages() can no longer set the GFP_THISNODE flag since we need to be able to use kmem_getpage to allocate from an arbitrary node. GFP_THISNODE needs to be specified when calling cache_grow(). One key advantage is that the decision from which node to allocate new memory is removed from slab fallback processing. The patch allows to go back to use of the page allocators fallback/reclaim logic. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-06 20:33:29 -08:00
[PATCH] GFP_THISNODE for the slab allocator This patch insures that the slab node lists in the NUMA case only contain slabs that belong to that specific node. All slab allocations use GFP_THISNODE when calling into the page allocator. If an allocation fails then we fall back in the slab allocator according to the zonelists appropriate for a certain context. This allows a replication of the behavior of alloc_pages and alloc_pages node in the slab layer. Currently allocations requested from the page allocator may be redirected via cpusets to other nodes. This results in remote pages on nodelists and that in turn results in interrupt latency issues during cache draining. Plus the slab is handing out memory as local when it is really remote. Fallback for slab memory allocations will occur within the slab allocator and not in the page allocator. This is necessary in order to be able to use the existing pools of objects on the nodes that we fall back to before adding more pages to a slab. The fallback function insures that the nodes we fall back to obey cpuset restrictions of the current context. We do not allocate objects from outside of the current cpuset context like before. Note that the implementation of locality constraints within the slab allocator requires importing logic from the page allocator. This is a mischmash that is not that great. Other allocators (uncached allocator, vmalloc, huge pages) face similar problems and have similar minimal reimplementations of the basic fallback logic of the page allocator. There is another way of implementing a slab by avoiding per node lists (see modular slab) but this wont work within the existing slab. V1->V2: - Use NUMA_BUILD to avoid #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA - Exploit GFP_THISNODE being 0 in the NON_NUMA case to avoid another #ifdef [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 01:50:08 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
numa: slab: use numa_mem_id() for slab local memory node Example usage of generic "numa_mem_id()": The mainline slab code, since ~ 2.6.19, does not handle memoryless nodes well. Specifically, the "fast path"--____cache_alloc()--will never succeed as slab doesn't cache offnode object on the per cpu queues, and for memoryless nodes, all memory will be "off node" relative to numa_node_id(). This adds significant overhead to all kmem cache allocations, incurring a significant regression relative to earlier kernels [from before slab.c was reorganized]. This patch uses the generic topology function "numa_mem_id()" to return the "effective local memory node" for the calling context. This is the first node in the local node's generic fallback zonelist-- the same node that "local" mempolicy-based allocations would use. This lets slab cache these "local" allocations and avoid fallback/refill on every allocation. N.B.: Slab will need to handle node and memory hotplug events that could change the value returned by numa_mem_id() for any given node if recent changes to address memory hotplug don't already address this. E.g., flush all per cpu slab queues before rebuilding the zonelists while the "machine" is held in the stopped state. Performance impact on "hackbench 400 process 200" 2.6.34-rc3-mmotm-100405-1609 no-patch this-patch ia64 no memoryless nodes [avg of 10]: 11.713 11.637 ~0.65 diff ia64 cpus all on memless nodes [10]: 228.259 26.484 ~8.6x speedup The slowdown of the patched kernel from ~12 sec to ~28 seconds when configured with memoryless nodes is the result of all cpus allocating from a single node's mm pagepool. The cache lines of the single node are distributed/interleaved over the memory of the real physical nodes, but the zone lock, list heads, ... of the single node with memory still each live in a single cache line that is accessed from all processors. x86_64 [8x6 AMD] [avg of 40]: 2.883 2.845 Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-26 14:45:03 -07:00
lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS) Here is another version, with the incremental patch rolled up, and added reclaim context annotation to kswapd, and allocation tracing to slab allocators (which may only ever reach the page allocator in rare cases, so it is good to put annotations here too). Haven't tested this version as such, but it should be getting closer to merge worthy ;) -- After noticing some code in mm/filemap.c accidentally perform a __GFP_FS allocation when it should not have been, I thought it might be a good idea to try to catch this kind of thing with lockdep. I coded up a little idea that seems to work. Unfortunately the system has to actually be in __GFP_FS page reclaim, then take the lock, before it will mark it. But at least that might still be some orders of magnitude more common (and more debuggable) than an actual deadlock condition, so we have some improvement I hope (the concept is no less complete than discovery of a lock's interrupt contexts). I guess we could even do the same thing with __GFP_IO (normal reclaim), and even GFP_NOIO locks too... but filesystems will have the most locks and fiddly code paths, so let's start there and see how it goes. It *seems* to work. I did a quick test. ================================= [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] 2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348-dirty #26 --------------------------------- inconsistent {in-reclaim-W} -> {ov-reclaim-W} usage. modprobe/8526 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes: (testlock){--..}, at: [<ffffffffa0020055>] brd_init+0x55/0x216 [brd] {in-reclaim-W} state was registered at: [<ffffffff80267bdb>] __lock_acquire+0x75b/0x1a60 [<ffffffff80268f71>] lock_acquire+0x91/0xc0 [<ffffffff8070f0e1>] mutex_lock_nested+0xb1/0x310 [<ffffffffa002002b>] brd_init+0x2b/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffff8020903b>] _stext+0x3b/0x170 [<ffffffff80272ebf>] sys_init_module+0xaf/0x1e0 [<ffffffff8020c3fb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff irq event stamp: 3929 hardirqs last enabled at (3929): [<ffffffff8070f2b5>] mutex_lock_nested+0x285/0x310 hardirqs last disabled at (3928): [<ffffffff8070f089>] mutex_lock_nested+0x59/0x310 softirqs last enabled at (3732): [<ffffffff8061f623>] sk_filter+0x83/0xe0 softirqs last disabled at (3730): [<ffffffff8061f5b6>] sk_filter+0x16/0xe0 other info that might help us debug this: 1 lock held by modprobe/8526: #0: (testlock){--..}, at: [<ffffffffa0020055>] brd_init+0x55/0x216 [brd] stack backtrace: Pid: 8526, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348-dirty #26 Call Trace: [<ffffffff80265483>] print_usage_bug+0x193/0x1d0 [<ffffffff80266530>] mark_lock+0xaf0/0xca0 [<ffffffff80266735>] mark_held_locks+0x55/0xc0 [<ffffffffa0020000>] ? brd_init+0x0/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffff802667ca>] trace_reclaim_fs+0x2a/0x60 [<ffffffff80285005>] __alloc_pages_internal+0x475/0x580 [<ffffffff8070f29e>] ? mutex_lock_nested+0x26e/0x310 [<ffffffffa0020000>] ? brd_init+0x0/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffffa002006a>] brd_init+0x6a/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffffa0020000>] ? brd_init+0x0/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffff8020903b>] _stext+0x3b/0x170 [<ffffffff8070f8b9>] ? mutex_unlock+0x9/0x10 [<ffffffff8070f83d>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x10d/0x180 [<ffffffff802669ec>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x12c/0x190 [<ffffffff80272ebf>] sys_init_module+0xaf/0x1e0 [<ffffffff8020c3fb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-21 08:12:39 +01:00
numa: slab: use numa_mem_id() for slab local memory node Example usage of generic "numa_mem_id()": The mainline slab code, since ~ 2.6.19, does not handle memoryless nodes well. Specifically, the "fast path"--____cache_alloc()--will never succeed as slab doesn't cache offnode object on the per cpu queues, and for memoryless nodes, all memory will be "off node" relative to numa_node_id(). This adds significant overhead to all kmem cache allocations, incurring a significant regression relative to earlier kernels [from before slab.c was reorganized]. This patch uses the generic topology function "numa_mem_id()" to return the "effective local memory node" for the calling context. This is the first node in the local node's generic fallback zonelist-- the same node that "local" mempolicy-based allocations would use. This lets slab cache these "local" allocations and avoid fallback/refill on every allocation. N.B.: Slab will need to handle node and memory hotplug events that could change the value returned by numa_mem_id() for any given node if recent changes to address memory hotplug don't already address this. E.g., flush all per cpu slab queues before rebuilding the zonelists while the "machine" is held in the stopped state. Performance impact on "hackbench 400 process 200" 2.6.34-rc3-mmotm-100405-1609 no-patch this-patch ia64 no memoryless nodes [avg of 10]: 11.713 11.637 ~0.65 diff ia64 cpus all on memless nodes [10]: 228.259 26.484 ~8.6x speedup The slowdown of the patched kernel from ~12 sec to ~28 seconds when configured with memoryless nodes is the result of all cpus allocating from a single node's mm pagepool. The cache lines of the single node are distributed/interleaved over the memory of the real physical nodes, but the zone lock, list heads, ... of the single node with memory still each live in a single cache line that is accessed from all processors. x86_64 [8x6 AMD] [avg of 40]: 2.883 2.845 Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-26 14:45:03 -07:00
numa: slab: use numa_mem_id() for slab local memory node Example usage of generic "numa_mem_id()": The mainline slab code, since ~ 2.6.19, does not handle memoryless nodes well. Specifically, the "fast path"--____cache_alloc()--will never succeed as slab doesn't cache offnode object on the per cpu queues, and for memoryless nodes, all memory will be "off node" relative to numa_node_id(). This adds significant overhead to all kmem cache allocations, incurring a significant regression relative to earlier kernels [from before slab.c was reorganized]. This patch uses the generic topology function "numa_mem_id()" to return the "effective local memory node" for the calling context. This is the first node in the local node's generic fallback zonelist-- the same node that "local" mempolicy-based allocations would use. This lets slab cache these "local" allocations and avoid fallback/refill on every allocation. N.B.: Slab will need to handle node and memory hotplug events that could change the value returned by numa_mem_id() for any given node if recent changes to address memory hotplug don't already address this. E.g., flush all per cpu slab queues before rebuilding the zonelists while the "machine" is held in the stopped state. Performance impact on "hackbench 400 process 200" 2.6.34-rc3-mmotm-100405-1609 no-patch this-patch ia64 no memoryless nodes [avg of 10]: 11.713 11.637 ~0.65 diff ia64 cpus all on memless nodes [10]: 228.259 26.484 ~8.6x speedup The slowdown of the patched kernel from ~12 sec to ~28 seconds when configured with memoryless nodes is the result of all cpus allocating from a single node's mm pagepool. The cache lines of the single node are distributed/interleaved over the memory of the real physical nodes, but the zone lock, list heads, ... of the single node with memory still each live in a single cache line that is accessed from all processors. x86_64 [8x6 AMD] [avg of 40]: 2.883 2.845 Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-26 14:45:03 -07:00
numa: slab: use numa_mem_id() for slab local memory node Example usage of generic "numa_mem_id()": The mainline slab code, since ~ 2.6.19, does not handle memoryless nodes well. Specifically, the "fast path"--____cache_alloc()--will never succeed as slab doesn't cache offnode object on the per cpu queues, and for memoryless nodes, all memory will be "off node" relative to numa_node_id(). This adds significant overhead to all kmem cache allocations, incurring a significant regression relative to earlier kernels [from before slab.c was reorganized]. This patch uses the generic topology function "numa_mem_id()" to return the "effective local memory node" for the calling context. This is the first node in the local node's generic fallback zonelist-- the same node that "local" mempolicy-based allocations would use. This lets slab cache these "local" allocations and avoid fallback/refill on every allocation. N.B.: Slab will need to handle node and memory hotplug events that could change the value returned by numa_mem_id() for any given node if recent changes to address memory hotplug don't already address this. E.g., flush all per cpu slab queues before rebuilding the zonelists while the "machine" is held in the stopped state. Performance impact on "hackbench 400 process 200" 2.6.34-rc3-mmotm-100405-1609 no-patch this-patch ia64 no memoryless nodes [avg of 10]: 11.713 11.637 ~0.65 diff ia64 cpus all on memless nodes [10]: 228.259 26.484 ~8.6x speedup The slowdown of the patched kernel from ~12 sec to ~28 seconds when configured with memoryless nodes is the result of all cpus allocating from a single node's mm pagepool. The cache lines of the single node are distributed/interleaved over the memory of the real physical nodes, but the zone lock, list heads, ... of the single node with memory still each live in a single cache line that is accessed from all processors. x86_64 [8x6 AMD] [avg of 40]: 2.883 2.845 Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-26 14:45:03 -07:00
lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS) Here is another version, with the incremental patch rolled up, and added reclaim context annotation to kswapd, and allocation tracing to slab allocators (which may only ever reach the page allocator in rare cases, so it is good to put annotations here too). Haven't tested this version as such, but it should be getting closer to merge worthy ;) -- After noticing some code in mm/filemap.c accidentally perform a __GFP_FS allocation when it should not have been, I thought it might be a good idea to try to catch this kind of thing with lockdep. I coded up a little idea that seems to work. Unfortunately the system has to actually be in __GFP_FS page reclaim, then take the lock, before it will mark it. But at least that might still be some orders of magnitude more common (and more debuggable) than an actual deadlock condition, so we have some improvement I hope (the concept is no less complete than discovery of a lock's interrupt contexts). I guess we could even do the same thing with __GFP_IO (normal reclaim), and even GFP_NOIO locks too... but filesystems will have the most locks and fiddly code paths, so let's start there and see how it goes. It *seems* to work. I did a quick test. ================================= [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] 2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348-dirty #26 --------------------------------- inconsistent {in-reclaim-W} -> {ov-reclaim-W} usage. modprobe/8526 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes: (testlock){--..}, at: [<ffffffffa0020055>] brd_init+0x55/0x216 [brd] {in-reclaim-W} state was registered at: [<ffffffff80267bdb>] __lock_acquire+0x75b/0x1a60 [<ffffffff80268f71>] lock_acquire+0x91/0xc0 [<ffffffff8070f0e1>] mutex_lock_nested+0xb1/0x310 [<ffffffffa002002b>] brd_init+0x2b/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffff8020903b>] _stext+0x3b/0x170 [<ffffffff80272ebf>] sys_init_module+0xaf/0x1e0 [<ffffffff8020c3fb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff irq event stamp: 3929 hardirqs last enabled at (3929): [<ffffffff8070f2b5>] mutex_lock_nested+0x285/0x310 hardirqs last disabled at (3928): [<ffffffff8070f089>] mutex_lock_nested+0x59/0x310 softirqs last enabled at (3732): [<ffffffff8061f623>] sk_filter+0x83/0xe0 softirqs last disabled at (3730): [<ffffffff8061f5b6>] sk_filter+0x16/0xe0 other info that might help us debug this: 1 lock held by modprobe/8526: #0: (testlock){--..}, at: [<ffffffffa0020055>] brd_init+0x55/0x216 [brd] stack backtrace: Pid: 8526, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348-dirty #26 Call Trace: [<ffffffff80265483>] print_usage_bug+0x193/0x1d0 [<ffffffff80266530>] mark_lock+0xaf0/0xca0 [<ffffffff80266735>] mark_held_locks+0x55/0xc0 [<ffffffffa0020000>] ? brd_init+0x0/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffff802667ca>] trace_reclaim_fs+0x2a/0x60 [<ffffffff80285005>] __alloc_pages_internal+0x475/0x580 [<ffffffff8070f29e>] ? mutex_lock_nested+0x26e/0x310 [<ffffffffa0020000>] ? brd_init+0x0/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffffa002006a>] brd_init+0x6a/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffffa0020000>] ? brd_init+0x0/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffff8020903b>] _stext+0x3b/0x170 [<ffffffff8070f8b9>] ? mutex_unlock+0x9/0x10 [<ffffffff8070f83d>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x10d/0x180 [<ffffffff802669ec>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x12c/0x190 [<ffffffff80272ebf>] sys_init_module+0xaf/0x1e0 [<ffffffff8020c3fb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-21 08:12:39 +01:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
numa: slab: use numa_mem_id() for slab local memory node Example usage of generic "numa_mem_id()": The mainline slab code, since ~ 2.6.19, does not handle memoryless nodes well. Specifically, the "fast path"--____cache_alloc()--will never succeed as slab doesn't cache offnode object on the per cpu queues, and for memoryless nodes, all memory will be "off node" relative to numa_node_id(). This adds significant overhead to all kmem cache allocations, incurring a significant regression relative to earlier kernels [from before slab.c was reorganized]. This patch uses the generic topology function "numa_mem_id()" to return the "effective local memory node" for the calling context. This is the first node in the local node's generic fallback zonelist-- the same node that "local" mempolicy-based allocations would use. This lets slab cache these "local" allocations and avoid fallback/refill on every allocation. N.B.: Slab will need to handle node and memory hotplug events that could change the value returned by numa_mem_id() for any given node if recent changes to address memory hotplug don't already address this. E.g., flush all per cpu slab queues before rebuilding the zonelists while the "machine" is held in the stopped state. Performance impact on "hackbench 400 process 200" 2.6.34-rc3-mmotm-100405-1609 no-patch this-patch ia64 no memoryless nodes [avg of 10]: 11.713 11.637 ~0.65 diff ia64 cpus all on memless nodes [10]: 228.259 26.484 ~8.6x speedup The slowdown of the patched kernel from ~12 sec to ~28 seconds when configured with memoryless nodes is the result of all cpus allocating from a single node's mm pagepool. The cache lines of the single node are distributed/interleaved over the memory of the real physical nodes, but the zone lock, list heads, ... of the single node with memory still each live in a single cache line that is accessed from all processors. x86_64 [8x6 AMD] [avg of 40]: 2.883 2.845 Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-26 14:45:03 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the use of disks and thin clients. The Linux Terminal Server Project recommends the use of the Network Block Device (NBD) for swap according to the manual at https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/files/Docs-Admin-Guide/LTSPManual.pdf/download There is also documentation and tutorials on how to setup swap over NBD at places like https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/EnableNBDSWAP The nbd-client also documents the use of NBD as swap. Despite this, the fact is that a machine using NBD for swap can deadlock within minutes if swap is used intensively. This patch series addresses the problem. The core issue is that network block devices do not use mempools like normal block devices do. As the host cannot control where they receive packets from, they cannot reliably work out in advance how much memory they might need. Some years ago, Peter Zijlstra developed a series of patches that supported swap over an NFS that at least one distribution is carrying within their kernels. This patch series borrows very heavily from Peter's work to support swapping over NBD as a pre-requisite to supporting swap-over-NFS. The bulk of the complexity is concerned with preserving memory that is allocated from the PFMEMALLOC reserves for use by the network layer which is needed for both NBD and NFS. Patch 1 adds knowledge of the PFMEMALLOC reserves to SLAB and SLUB to preserve access to pages allocated under low memory situations to callers that are freeing memory. Patch 2 optimises the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks Patch 3 introduces __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to the PFMEMALLOC reserves without setting PFMEMALLOC. Patch 4 opens the possibility for softirqs to use PFMEMALLOC reserves for later use by network packet processing. Patch 5 only sets page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was required Patch 6 ignores memory policies when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS is set. Patches 7-12 allows network processing to use PFMEMALLOC reserves when the socket has been marked as being used by the VM to clean pages. If packets are received and stored in pages that were allocated under low-memory situations and are unrelated to the VM, the packets are dropped. Patch 11 reintroduces __skb_alloc_page which the networking folk may object to but is needed in some cases to propogate pfmemalloc from a newly allocated page to an skb. If there is a strong objection, this patch can be dropped with the impact being that swap-over-network will be slower in some cases but it should not fail. Patch 13 is a micro-optimisation to avoid a function call in the common case. Patch 14 tags NBD sockets as being SOCK_MEMALLOC so they can use PFMEMALLOC if necessary. Patch 15 notes that it is still possible for the PFMEMALLOC reserve to be depleted. To prevent this, direct reclaimers get throttled on a waitqueue if 50% of the PFMEMALLOC reserves are depleted. It is expected that kswapd and the direct reclaimers already running will clean enough pages for the low watermark to be reached and the throttled processes are woken up. Patch 16 adds a statistic to track how often processes get throttled Some basic performance testing was run using kernel builds, netperf on loopback for UDP and TCP, hackbench (pipes and sockets), iozone and sysbench. Each of them were expected to use the sl*b allocators reasonably heavily but there did not appear to be significant performance variances. For testing swap-over-NBD, a machine was booted with 2G of RAM with a swapfile backed by NBD. 8*NUM_CPU processes were started that create anonymous memory mappings and read them linearly in a loop. The total size of the mappings were 4*PHYSICAL_MEMORY to use swap heavily under memory pressure. Without the patches and using SLUB, the machine locks up within minutes and runs to completion with them applied. With SLAB, the story is different as an unpatched kernel run to completion. However, the patched kernel completed the test 45% faster. MICRO 3.5.0-rc2 3.5.0-rc2 vanilla swapnbd Unrecognised test vmscan-anon-mmap-write MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 197.80 173.07 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 206.96 182.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 3240.70 1762.09 This patch: mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Allocations of pages below the min watermark run a risk of the machine hanging due to a lack of memory. To prevent this, only callers who have PF_MEMALLOC or TIF_MEMDIE set and are not processing an interrupt are allowed to allocate with ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS. Once they are allocated to a slab though, nothing prevents other callers consuming free objects within those slabs. This patch limits access to slab pages that were alloced from the PFMEMALLOC reserves. When this patch is applied, pages allocated from below the low watermark are returned with page->pfmemalloc set and it is up to the caller to determine how the page should be protected. SLAB restricts access to any page with page->pfmemalloc set to callers which are known to able to access the PFMEMALLOC reserve. If one is not available, an attempt is made to allocate a new page rather than use a reserve. SLUB is a bit more relaxed in that it only records if the current per-CPU page was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserve and uses another partial slab if the caller does not have the necessary GFP or process flags. This was found to be sufficient in tests to avoid hangs due to SLUB generally maintaining smaller lists than SLAB. In low-memory conditions it does mean that !PFMEMALLOC allocators can fail a slab allocation even though free objects are available because they are being preserved for callers that are freeing pages. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original implementation] [sebastian@breakpoint.cc: Correct order of page flag clearing] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 16:43:58 -07:00
[PATCH] add kmalloc_node, inline cleanup The patch makes the following function calls available to allocate memory on a specific node without changing the basic operation of the slab allocator: kmem_cache_alloc_node(kmem_cache_t *cachep, unsigned int flags, int node); kmalloc_node(size_t size, unsigned int flags, int node); in a similar way to the existing node-blind functions: kmem_cache_alloc(kmem_cache_t *cachep, unsigned int flags); kmalloc(size, flags); kmem_cache_alloc_node was changed to pass flags and the node information through the existing layers of the slab allocator (which lead to some minor rearrangements). The functions at the lowest layer (kmem_getpages, cache_grow) are already node aware. Also __alloc_percpu can call kmalloc_node now. Performance measurements (using the pageset localization patch) yields: w/o patches: Tasks jobs/min jti jobs/min/task real cpu 1 484.27 100 484.2736 12.02 1.97 Wed Mar 30 20:50:43 2005 100 25170.83 91 251.7083 23.12 150.10 Wed Mar 30 20:51:06 2005 200 34601.66 84 173.0083 33.64 294.14 Wed Mar 30 20:51:40 2005 300 37154.47 86 123.8482 46.99 436.56 Wed Mar 30 20:52:28 2005 400 39839.82 80 99.5995 58.43 580.46 Wed Mar 30 20:53:27 2005 500 40036.32 79 80.0726 72.68 728.60 Wed Mar 30 20:54:40 2005 600 44074.21 79 73.4570 79.23 872.10 Wed Mar 30 20:55:59 2005 700 44016.60 78 62.8809 92.56 1015.84 Wed Mar 30 20:57:32 2005 800 40411.05 80 50.5138 115.22 1161.13 Wed Mar 30 20:59:28 2005 900 42298.56 79 46.9984 123.83 1303.42 Wed Mar 30 21:01:33 2005 1000 40955.05 80 40.9551 142.11 1441.92 Wed Mar 30 21:03:55 2005 with pageset localization and slab API patches: Tasks jobs/min jti jobs/min/task real cpu 1 484.19 100 484.1930 12.02 1.98 Wed Mar 30 21:10:18 2005 100 27428.25 92 274.2825 21.22 149.79 Wed Mar 30 21:10:40 2005 200 37228.94 86 186.1447 31.27 293.49 Wed Mar 30 21:11:12 2005 300 41725.42 85 139.0847 41.84 434.10 Wed Mar 30 21:11:54 2005 400 43032.22 82 107.5805 54.10 582.06 Wed Mar 30 21:12:48 2005 500 42211.23 83 84.4225 68.94 722.61 Wed Mar 30 21:13:58 2005 600 40084.49 82 66.8075 87.12 873.11 Wed Mar 30 21:15:25 2005 700 44169.30 79 63.0990 92.24 1008.77 Wed Mar 30 21:16:58 2005 800 43097.94 79 53.8724 108.03 1155.88 Wed Mar 30 21:18:47 2005 900 41846.75 79 46.4964 125.17 1303.38 Wed Mar 30 21:20:52 2005 1000 40247.85 79 40.2478 144.60 1442.21 Wed Mar 30 21:23:17 2005 Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:38 -07:00
[PATCH] add kmalloc_node, inline cleanup The patch makes the following function calls available to allocate memory on a specific node without changing the basic operation of the slab allocator: kmem_cache_alloc_node(kmem_cache_t *cachep, unsigned int flags, int node); kmalloc_node(size_t size, unsigned int flags, int node); in a similar way to the existing node-blind functions: kmem_cache_alloc(kmem_cache_t *cachep, unsigned int flags); kmalloc(size, flags); kmem_cache_alloc_node was changed to pass flags and the node information through the existing layers of the slab allocator (which lead to some minor rearrangements). The functions at the lowest layer (kmem_getpages, cache_grow) are already node aware. Also __alloc_percpu can call kmalloc_node now. Performance measurements (using the pageset localization patch) yields: w/o patches: Tasks jobs/min jti jobs/min/task real cpu 1 484.27 100 484.2736 12.02 1.97 Wed Mar 30 20:50:43 2005 100 25170.83 91 251.7083 23.12 150.10 Wed Mar 30 20:51:06 2005 200 34601.66 84 173.0083 33.64 294.14 Wed Mar 30 20:51:40 2005 300 37154.47 86 123.8482 46.99 436.56 Wed Mar 30 20:52:28 2005 400 39839.82 80 99.5995 58.43 580.46 Wed Mar 30 20:53:27 2005 500 40036.32 79 80.0726 72.68 728.60 Wed Mar 30 20:54:40 2005 600 44074.21 79 73.4570 79.23 872.10 Wed Mar 30 20:55:59 2005 700 44016.60 78 62.8809 92.56 1015.84 Wed Mar 30 20:57:32 2005 800 40411.05 80 50.5138 115.22 1161.13 Wed Mar 30 20:59:28 2005 900 42298.56 79 46.9984 123.83 1303.42 Wed Mar 30 21:01:33 2005 1000 40955.05 80 40.9551 142.11 1441.92 Wed Mar 30 21:03:55 2005 with pageset localization and slab API patches: Tasks jobs/min jti jobs/min/task real cpu 1 484.19 100 484.1930 12.02 1.98 Wed Mar 30 21:10:18 2005 100 27428.25 92 274.2825 21.22 149.79 Wed Mar 30 21:10:40 2005 200 37228.94 86 186.1447 31.27 293.49 Wed Mar 30 21:11:12 2005 300 41725.42 85 139.0847 41.84 434.10 Wed Mar 30 21:11:54 2005 400 43032.22 82 107.5805 54.10 582.06 Wed Mar 30 21:12:48 2005 500 42211.23 83 84.4225 68.94 722.61 Wed Mar 30 21:13:58 2005 600 40084.49 82 66.8075 87.12 873.11 Wed Mar 30 21:15:25 2005 700 44169.30 79 63.0990 92.24 1008.77 Wed Mar 30 21:16:58 2005 800 43097.94 79 53.8724 108.03 1155.88 Wed Mar 30 21:18:47 2005 900 41846.75 79 46.4964 125.17 1303.38 Wed Mar 30 21:20:52 2005 1000 40247.85 79 40.2478 144.60 1442.21 Wed Mar 30 21:23:17 2005 Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:38 -07:00
[PATCH] add kmalloc_node, inline cleanup The patch makes the following function calls available to allocate memory on a specific node without changing the basic operation of the slab allocator: kmem_cache_alloc_node(kmem_cache_t *cachep, unsigned int flags, int node); kmalloc_node(size_t size, unsigned int flags, int node); in a similar way to the existing node-blind functions: kmem_cache_alloc(kmem_cache_t *cachep, unsigned int flags); kmalloc(size, flags); kmem_cache_alloc_node was changed to pass flags and the node information through the existing layers of the slab allocator (which lead to some minor rearrangements). The functions at the lowest layer (kmem_getpages, cache_grow) are already node aware. Also __alloc_percpu can call kmalloc_node now. Performance measurements (using the pageset localization patch) yields: w/o patches: Tasks jobs/min jti jobs/min/task real cpu 1 484.27 100 484.2736 12.02 1.97 Wed Mar 30 20:50:43 2005 100 25170.83 91 251.7083 23.12 150.10 Wed Mar 30 20:51:06 2005 200 34601.66 84 173.0083 33.64 294.14 Wed Mar 30 20:51:40 2005 300 37154.47 86 123.8482 46.99 436.56 Wed Mar 30 20:52:28 2005 400 39839.82 80 99.5995 58.43 580.46 Wed Mar 30 20:53:27 2005 500 40036.32 79 80.0726 72.68 728.60 Wed Mar 30 20:54:40 2005 600 44074.21 79 73.4570 79.23 872.10 Wed Mar 30 20:55:59 2005 700 44016.60 78 62.8809 92.56 1015.84 Wed Mar 30 20:57:32 2005 800 40411.05 80 50.5138 115.22 1161.13 Wed Mar 30 20:59:28 2005 900 42298.56 79 46.9984 123.83 1303.42 Wed Mar 30 21:01:33 2005 1000 40955.05 80 40.9551 142.11 1441.92 Wed Mar 30 21:03:55 2005 with pageset localization and slab API patches: Tasks jobs/min jti jobs/min/task real cpu 1 484.19 100 484.1930 12.02 1.98 Wed Mar 30 21:10:18 2005 100 27428.25 92 274.2825 21.22 149.79 Wed Mar 30 21:10:40 2005 200 37228.94 86 186.1447 31.27 293.49 Wed Mar 30 21:11:12 2005 300 41725.42 85 139.0847 41.84 434.10 Wed Mar 30 21:11:54 2005 400 43032.22 82 107.5805 54.10 582.06 Wed Mar 30 21:12:48 2005 500 42211.23 83 84.4225 68.94 722.61 Wed Mar 30 21:13:58 2005 600 40084.49 82 66.8075 87.12 873.11 Wed Mar 30 21:15:25 2005 700 44169.30 79 63.0990 92.24 1008.77 Wed Mar 30 21:16:58 2005 800 43097.94 79 53.8724 108.03 1155.88 Wed Mar 30 21:18:47 2005 900 41846.75 79 46.4964 125.17 1303.38 Wed Mar 30 21:20:52 2005 1000 40247.85 79 40.2478 144.60 1442.21 Wed Mar 30 21:23:17 2005 Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:38 -07:00
[PATCH] add kmalloc_node, inline cleanup The patch makes the following function calls available to allocate memory on a specific node without changing the basic operation of the slab allocator: kmem_cache_alloc_node(kmem_cache_t *cachep, unsigned int flags, int node); kmalloc_node(size_t size, unsigned int flags, int node); in a similar way to the existing node-blind functions: kmem_cache_alloc(kmem_cache_t *cachep, unsigned int flags); kmalloc(size, flags); kmem_cache_alloc_node was changed to pass flags and the node information through the existing layers of the slab allocator (which lead to some minor rearrangements). The functions at the lowest layer (kmem_getpages, cache_grow) are already node aware. Also __alloc_percpu can call kmalloc_node now. Performance measurements (using the pageset localization patch) yields: w/o patches: Tasks jobs/min jti jobs/min/task real cpu 1 484.27 100 484.2736 12.02 1.97 Wed Mar 30 20:50:43 2005 100 25170.83 91 251.7083 23.12 150.10 Wed Mar 30 20:51:06 2005 200 34601.66 84 173.0083 33.64 294.14 Wed Mar 30 20:51:40 2005 300 37154.47 86 123.8482 46.99 436.56 Wed Mar 30 20:52:28 2005 400 39839.82 80 99.5995 58.43 580.46 Wed Mar 30 20:53:27 2005 500 40036.32 79 80.0726 72.68 728.60 Wed Mar 30 20:54:40 2005 600 44074.21 79 73.4570 79.23 872.10 Wed Mar 30 20:55:59 2005 700 44016.60 78 62.8809 92.56 1015.84 Wed Mar 30 20:57:32 2005 800 40411.05 80 50.5138 115.22 1161.13 Wed Mar 30 20:59:28 2005 900 42298.56 79 46.9984 123.83 1303.42 Wed Mar 30 21:01:33 2005 1000 40955.05 80 40.9551 142.11 1441.92 Wed Mar 30 21:03:55 2005 with pageset localization and slab API patches: Tasks jobs/min jti jobs/min/task real cpu 1 484.19 100 484.1930 12.02 1.98 Wed Mar 30 21:10:18 2005 100 27428.25 92 274.2825 21.22 149.79 Wed Mar 30 21:10:40 2005 200 37228.94 86 186.1447 31.27 293.49 Wed Mar 30 21:11:12 2005 300 41725.42 85 139.0847 41.84 434.10 Wed Mar 30 21:11:54 2005 400 43032.22 82 107.5805 54.10 582.06 Wed Mar 30 21:12:48 2005 500 42211.23 83 84.4225 68.94 722.61 Wed Mar 30 21:13:58 2005 600 40084.49 82 66.8075 87.12 873.11 Wed Mar 30 21:15:25 2005 700 44169.30 79 63.0990 92.24 1008.77 Wed Mar 30 21:16:58 2005 800 43097.94 79 53.8724 108.03 1155.88 Wed Mar 30 21:18:47 2005 900 41846.75 79 46.4964 125.17 1303.38 Wed Mar 30 21:20:52 2005 1000 40247.85 79 40.2478 144.60 1442.21 Wed Mar 30 21:23:17 2005 Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:58:38 -07:00
infrastructure to debug (dynamic) objects We can see an ever repeating problem pattern with objects of any kind in the kernel: 1) freeing of active objects 2) reinitialization of active objects Both problems can be hard to debug because the crash happens at a point where we have no chance to decode the root cause anymore. One problem spot are kernel timers, where the detection of the problem often happens in interrupt context and usually causes the machine to panic. While working on a timer related bug report I had to hack specialized code into the timer subsystem to get a reasonable hint for the root cause. This debug hack was fine for temporary use, but far from a mergeable solution due to the intrusiveness into the timer code. The code further lacked the ability to detect and report the root cause instantly and keep the system operational. Keeping the system operational is important to get hold of the debug information without special debugging aids like serial consoles and special knowledge of the bug reporter. The problems described above are not restricted to timers, but timers tend to expose it usually in a full system crash. Other objects are less explosive, but the symptoms caused by such mistakes can be even harder to debug. Instead of creating specialized debugging code for the timer subsystem a generic infrastructure is created which allows developers to verify their code and provides an easy to enable debug facility for users in case of trouble. The debugobjects core code keeps track of operations on static and dynamic objects by inserting them into a hashed list and sanity checking them on object operations and provides additional checks whenever kernel memory is freed. The tracked object operations are: - initializing an object - adding an object to a subsystem list - deleting an object from a subsystem list Each operation is sanity checked before the operation is executed and the subsystem specific code can provide a fixup function which allows to prevent the damage of the operation. When the sanity check triggers a warning message and a stack trace is printed. The list of operations can be extended if the need arises. For now it's limited to the requirements of the first user (timers). The core code enqueues the objects into hash buckets. The hash index is generated from the address of the object to simplify the lookup for the check on kfree/vfree. Each bucket has it's own spinlock to avoid contention on a global lock. The debug code can be compiled in without being active. The runtime overhead is minimal and could be optimized by asm alternatives. A kernel command line option enables the debugging code. Thanks to Ingo Molnar for review, suggestions and cleanup patches. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 00:55:01 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some changes to allocator boostrap code. Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar: We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code: [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000 [ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c [ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001 [ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002 [ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc [ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0 [ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003 [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c [ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-10 19:40:04 +03:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some changes to allocator boostrap code. Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar: We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code: [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000 [ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c [ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001 [ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002 [ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc [ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0 [ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003 [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c [ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-10 19:40:04 +03:00
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some changes to allocator boostrap code. Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar: We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code: [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000 [ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c [ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001 [ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002 [ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc [ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0 [ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003 [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c [ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-10 19:40:04 +03:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
slab: propagate tunable values SLAB allows us to tune a particular cache behavior with tunables. When creating a new memcg cache copy, we'd like to preserve any tunables the parent cache already had. This could be done by an explicit call to do_tune_cpucache() after the cache is created. But this is not very convenient now that the caches are created from common code, since this function is SLAB-specific. Another method of doing that is taking advantage of the fact that do_tune_cpucache() is always called from enable_cpucache(), which is called at cache initialization. We can just preset the values, and then things work as expected. It can also happen that a root cache has its tunables updated during normal system operation. In this case, we will propagate the change to all caches that are already active. This change will require us to move the assignment of root_cache in memcg_params a bit earlier. We need this to be already set - which memcg_kmem_register_cache will do - when we reach __kmem_cache_create() Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-18 14:23:03 -08:00
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some changes to allocator boostrap code. Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar: We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code: [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000 [ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c [ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001 [ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002 [ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc [ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0 [ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003 [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c [ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-10 19:40:04 +03:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
numa: slab: use numa_mem_id() for slab local memory node Example usage of generic "numa_mem_id()": The mainline slab code, since ~ 2.6.19, does not handle memoryless nodes well. Specifically, the "fast path"--____cache_alloc()--will never succeed as slab doesn't cache offnode object on the per cpu queues, and for memoryless nodes, all memory will be "off node" relative to numa_node_id(). This adds significant overhead to all kmem cache allocations, incurring a significant regression relative to earlier kernels [from before slab.c was reorganized]. This patch uses the generic topology function "numa_mem_id()" to return the "effective local memory node" for the calling context. This is the first node in the local node's generic fallback zonelist-- the same node that "local" mempolicy-based allocations would use. This lets slab cache these "local" allocations and avoid fallback/refill on every allocation. N.B.: Slab will need to handle node and memory hotplug events that could change the value returned by numa_mem_id() for any given node if recent changes to address memory hotplug don't already address this. E.g., flush all per cpu slab queues before rebuilding the zonelists while the "machine" is held in the stopped state. Performance impact on "hackbench 400 process 200" 2.6.34-rc3-mmotm-100405-1609 no-patch this-patch ia64 no memoryless nodes [avg of 10]: 11.713 11.637 ~0.65 diff ia64 cpus all on memless nodes [10]: 228.259 26.484 ~8.6x speedup The slowdown of the patched kernel from ~12 sec to ~28 seconds when configured with memoryless nodes is the result of all cpus allocating from a single node's mm pagepool. The cache lines of the single node are distributed/interleaved over the memory of the real physical nodes, but the zone lock, list heads, ... of the single node with memory still each live in a single cache line that is accessed from all processors. x86_64 [8x6 AMD] [avg of 40]: 2.883 2.845 Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-26 14:45:03 -07:00
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some changes to allocator boostrap code. Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar: We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code: [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000 [ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c [ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001 [ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002 [ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc [ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0 [ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003 [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c [ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-10 19:40:04 +03:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
numa: slab: use numa_mem_id() for slab local memory node Example usage of generic "numa_mem_id()": The mainline slab code, since ~ 2.6.19, does not handle memoryless nodes well. Specifically, the "fast path"--____cache_alloc()--will never succeed as slab doesn't cache offnode object on the per cpu queues, and for memoryless nodes, all memory will be "off node" relative to numa_node_id(). This adds significant overhead to all kmem cache allocations, incurring a significant regression relative to earlier kernels [from before slab.c was reorganized]. This patch uses the generic topology function "numa_mem_id()" to return the "effective local memory node" for the calling context. This is the first node in the local node's generic fallback zonelist-- the same node that "local" mempolicy-based allocations would use. This lets slab cache these "local" allocations and avoid fallback/refill on every allocation. N.B.: Slab will need to handle node and memory hotplug events that could change the value returned by numa_mem_id() for any given node if recent changes to address memory hotplug don't already address this. E.g., flush all per cpu slab queues before rebuilding the zonelists while the "machine" is held in the stopped state. Performance impact on "hackbench 400 process 200" 2.6.34-rc3-mmotm-100405-1609 no-patch this-patch ia64 no memoryless nodes [avg of 10]: 11.713 11.637 ~0.65 diff ia64 cpus all on memless nodes [10]: 228.259 26.484 ~8.6x speedup The slowdown of the patched kernel from ~12 sec to ~28 seconds when configured with memoryless nodes is the result of all cpus allocating from a single node's mm pagepool. The cache lines of the single node are distributed/interleaved over the memory of the real physical nodes, but the zone lock, list heads, ... of the single node with memory still each live in a single cache line that is accessed from all processors. x86_64 [8x6 AMD] [avg of 40]: 2.883 2.845 Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-26 14:45:03 -07:00
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some changes to allocator boostrap code. Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar: We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code: [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000 [ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c [ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001 [ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002 [ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc [ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0 [ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003 [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c [ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-10 19:40:04 +03:00
slab: propagate tunable values SLAB allows us to tune a particular cache behavior with tunables. When creating a new memcg cache copy, we'd like to preserve any tunables the parent cache already had. This could be done by an explicit call to do_tune_cpucache() after the cache is created. But this is not very convenient now that the caches are created from common code, since this function is SLAB-specific. Another method of doing that is taking advantage of the fact that do_tune_cpucache() is always called from enable_cpucache(), which is called at cache initialization. We can just preset the values, and then things work as expected. It can also happen that a root cache has its tunables updated during normal system operation. In this case, we will propagate the change to all caches that are already active. This change will require us to move the assignment of root_cache in memcg_params a bit earlier. We need this to be already set - which memcg_kmem_register_cache will do - when we reach __kmem_cache_create() Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-18 14:23:03 -08:00
slab: propagate tunable values SLAB allows us to tune a particular cache behavior with tunables. When creating a new memcg cache copy, we'd like to preserve any tunables the parent cache already had. This could be done by an explicit call to do_tune_cpucache() after the cache is created. But this is not very convenient now that the caches are created from common code, since this function is SLAB-specific. Another method of doing that is taking advantage of the fact that do_tune_cpucache() is always called from enable_cpucache(), which is called at cache initialization. We can just preset the values, and then things work as expected. It can also happen that a root cache has its tunables updated during normal system operation. In this case, we will propagate the change to all caches that are already active. This change will require us to move the assignment of root_cache in memcg_params a bit earlier. We need this to be already set - which memcg_kmem_register_cache will do - when we reach __kmem_cache_create() Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-18 14:23:03 -08:00
slab: propagate tunable values SLAB allows us to tune a particular cache behavior with tunables. When creating a new memcg cache copy, we'd like to preserve any tunables the parent cache already had. This could be done by an explicit call to do_tune_cpucache() after the cache is created. But this is not very convenient now that the caches are created from common code, since this function is SLAB-specific. Another method of doing that is taking advantage of the fact that do_tune_cpucache() is always called from enable_cpucache(), which is called at cache initialization. We can just preset the values, and then things work as expected. It can also happen that a root cache has its tunables updated during normal system operation. In this case, we will propagate the change to all caches that are already active. This change will require us to move the assignment of root_cache in memcg_params a bit earlier. We need this to be already set - which memcg_kmem_register_cache will do - when we reach __kmem_cache_create() Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-18 14:23:03 -08:00
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some changes to allocator boostrap code. Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar: We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code: [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000 [ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c [ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001 [ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002 [ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc [ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0 [ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003 [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c [ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-10 19:40:04 +03:00
slab: propagate tunable values SLAB allows us to tune a particular cache behavior with tunables. When creating a new memcg cache copy, we'd like to preserve any tunables the parent cache already had. This could be done by an explicit call to do_tune_cpucache() after the cache is created. But this is not very convenient now that the caches are created from common code, since this function is SLAB-specific. Another method of doing that is taking advantage of the fact that do_tune_cpucache() is always called from enable_cpucache(), which is called at cache initialization. We can just preset the values, and then things work as expected. It can also happen that a root cache has its tunables updated during normal system operation. In this case, we will propagate the change to all caches that are already active. This change will require us to move the assignment of root_cache in memcg_params a bit earlier. We need this to be already set - which memcg_kmem_register_cache will do - when we reach __kmem_cache_create() Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-18 14:23:03 -08:00
slab: propagate tunable values SLAB allows us to tune a particular cache behavior with tunables. When creating a new memcg cache copy, we'd like to preserve any tunables the parent cache already had. This could be done by an explicit call to do_tune_cpucache() after the cache is created. But this is not very convenient now that the caches are created from common code, since this function is SLAB-specific. Another method of doing that is taking advantage of the fact that do_tune_cpucache() is always called from enable_cpucache(), which is called at cache initialization. We can just preset the values, and then things work as expected. It can also happen that a root cache has its tunables updated during normal system operation. In this case, we will propagate the change to all caches that are already active. This change will require us to move the assignment of root_cache in memcg_params a bit earlier. We need this to be already set - which memcg_kmem_register_cache will do - when we reach __kmem_cache_create() Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-18 14:23:03 -08:00
slab: propagate tunable values SLAB allows us to tune a particular cache behavior with tunables. When creating a new memcg cache copy, we'd like to preserve any tunables the parent cache already had. This could be done by an explicit call to do_tune_cpucache() after the cache is created. But this is not very convenient now that the caches are created from common code, since this function is SLAB-specific. Another method of doing that is taking advantage of the fact that do_tune_cpucache() is always called from enable_cpucache(), which is called at cache initialization. We can just preset the values, and then things work as expected. It can also happen that a root cache has its tunables updated during normal system operation. In this case, we will propagate the change to all caches that are already active. This change will require us to move the assignment of root_cache in memcg_params a bit earlier. We need this to be already set - which memcg_kmem_register_cache will do - when we reach __kmem_cache_create() Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-18 14:23:03 -08:00
numa: slab: use numa_mem_id() for slab local memory node Example usage of generic "numa_mem_id()": The mainline slab code, since ~ 2.6.19, does not handle memoryless nodes well. Specifically, the "fast path"--____cache_alloc()--will never succeed as slab doesn't cache offnode object on the per cpu queues, and for memoryless nodes, all memory will be "off node" relative to numa_node_id(). This adds significant overhead to all kmem cache allocations, incurring a significant regression relative to earlier kernels [from before slab.c was reorganized]. This patch uses the generic topology function "numa_mem_id()" to return the "effective local memory node" for the calling context. This is the first node in the local node's generic fallback zonelist-- the same node that "local" mempolicy-based allocations would use. This lets slab cache these "local" allocations and avoid fallback/refill on every allocation. N.B.: Slab will need to handle node and memory hotplug events that could change the value returned by numa_mem_id() for any given node if recent changes to address memory hotplug don't already address this. E.g., flush all per cpu slab queues before rebuilding the zonelists while the "machine" is held in the stopped state. Performance impact on "hackbench 400 process 200" 2.6.34-rc3-mmotm-100405-1609 no-patch this-patch ia64 no memoryless nodes [avg of 10]: 11.713 11.637 ~0.65 diff ia64 cpus all on memless nodes [10]: 228.259 26.484 ~8.6x speedup The slowdown of the patched kernel from ~12 sec to ~28 seconds when configured with memoryless nodes is the result of all cpus allocating from a single node's mm pagepool. The cache lines of the single node are distributed/interleaved over the memory of the real physical nodes, but the zone lock, list heads, ... of the single node with memory still each live in a single cache line that is accessed from all processors. x86_64 [8x6 AMD] [avg of 40]: 2.883 2.845 Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-26 14:45:03 -07:00
[PATCH] slab: Node rotor for freeing alien caches and remote per cpu pages. The cache reaper currently tries to free all alien caches and all remote per cpu pages in each pass of cache_reap. For a machines with large number of nodes (such as Altix) this may lead to sporadic delays of around ~10ms. Interrupts are disabled while reclaiming creating unacceptable delays. This patch changes that behavior by adding a per cpu reap_node variable. Instead of attempting to free all caches, we free only one alien cache and the per cpu pages from one remote node. That reduces the time spend in cache_reap. However, doing so will lengthen the time it takes to completely drain all remote per cpu pagesets and all alien caches. The time needed will grow with the number of nodes in the system. All caches are drained when they overflow their respective capacity. So the drawback here is only that a bit of memory may be wasted for awhile longer. Details: 1. Rename drain_remote_pages to drain_node_pages to allow the specification of the node to drain of pcp pages. 2. Add additional functions init_reap_node, next_reap_node for NUMA that manage a per cpu reap_node counter. 3. Add a reap_alien function that reaps only from the current reap_node. For us this seems to be a critical issue. Holdoffs of an average of ~7ms cause some HPC benchmarks to slow down significantly. F.e. NAS parallel slows down dramatically. NAS parallel has a 12-16 seconds runtime w/o rotor compared to 5.8 secs with the rotor patches. It gets down to 5.05 secs with the additional interrupt holdoff reductions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-09 17:33:54 -08:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
[PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5 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=2 http://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>
2005-09-09 13:03:32 -07:00
slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some changes to allocator boostrap code. Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar: We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code: [ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000 [ 0.000000] EDI 00000188 ESI 00000ac7 EBP c17eaf9c ESP c17eaf8c [ 0.000000] EBX 000014e0 EDX 0000000e ECX 01856067 EAX 00000001 [ 0.000000] err 00000003 EIP c10135b1 CS 00000060 flg 00010002 [ 0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc [ 0.000000] 00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0 [ 0.000000] c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003 [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203 [ 0.000000] Call Trace: [ 0.000000] [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16 [ 0.000000] [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64 [ 0.000000] [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7 [ 0.000000] [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c [ 0.000000] [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-10 19:40:04 +03:00
[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 03:06:39 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 03:06:39 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 03:06:39 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 03:06:39 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 03:06:39 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 03:06:39 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 03:06:39 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 03:06:39 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 03:06:39 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 03:06:39 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 03:06:39 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 03:06:39 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 03:06:39 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 03:06:39 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 03:06:39 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 03:06:39 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 03:06:39 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 03:06:39 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 03:06:39 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 03:06:39 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 03:06:39 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 03:06:39 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 03:06:39 -08:00
[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators Implement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like: idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75 mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42 mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370 vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370 vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3 vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2 vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142 vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214 fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133 fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3 files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3 sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8 anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3 size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302 size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4 Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> DESC slab-leaks3-locking-fix EDESC From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 03:06:39 -08:00