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Wu Fengguang authored
Export all page flags faithfully in /proc/kpageflags. 11. KPF_MMAP (pseudo flag) memory mapped page 12. KPF_ANON (pseudo flag) memory mapped page (anonymous) 13. KPF_SWAPCACHE page is in swap cache 14. KPF_SWAPBACKED page is swap/RAM backed 15. KPF_COMPOUND_HEAD (*) 16. KPF_COMPOUND_TAIL (*) 17. KPF_HUGE hugeTLB pages 18. KPF_UNEVICTABLE page is in the unevictable LRU list 19. KPF_HWPOISON(TBD) hardware detected corruption 20. KPF_NOPAGE (pseudo flag) no page frame at the address 32-39. more obscure flags for kernel developers (*) For compound pages, exporting _both_ head/tail info enables users to tell where a compound page starts/ends, and its order. The accompanying page-types tool will handle the details like decoupling overloaded flags and hiding obscure flags to normal users. Thanks to KOSAKI and Andi for their valuable recommendations! Signed-off-by:
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Wu Fengguang authored
Move increments of pfn/out to bottom of the loop. Signed-off-by:
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Wu Fengguang authored
A series of patches to enhance the /proc/pagemap interface and to add a userspace executable which can be used to present the pagemap data. Export 10 more flags to end users (and more for kernel developers): 11. KPF_MMAP (pseudo flag) memory mapped page 12. KPF_ANON (pseudo flag) memory mapped page (anonymous) 13. KPF_SWAPCACHE page is in swap cache 14. KPF_SWAPBACKED page is swap/RAM backed 15. KPF_COMPOUND_HEAD (*) 16. KPF_COMPOUND_TAIL (*) 17. KPF_HUGE hugeTLB pages 18. KPF_UNEVICTABLE page is in the unevictable LRU list 19. KPF_HWPOISON hardware detected corruption 20. KPF_NOPAGE (pseudo flag) no page frame at the address (*) For compound pages, exporting _both_ head/tail info enables users to tell where a compound page starts/ends, and its order. a simple demo of the page-types tool # ./page-types -h page-types [options] -r|--raw Raw mode, for kernel developers -a|--addr addr-spec Walk a range of pages -b|--bits bits-spec Walk pages with specified bits -l|--list Show page details in ranges -L|--list-each Show page details one by one -N|--no-summary Don't show summay info -h|--help Show this usage message addr-spec: N one page at offset N (unit: pages) N+M pages range from N to N+M-1 N,M pages range from N to M-1 N, pages range from N to end ,M pages range from 0 to M bits-spec: bit1,bit2 (flags & (bit1|bit2)) != 0 bit1,bit2=bit1 (flags & (bit1|bit2)) == bit1 bit1,~bit2 (flags & (bit1|bit2)) == bit1 =bit1,bit2 flags == (bit1|bit2) bit-names: locked error referenced uptodate dirty lru active slab writeback reclaim buddy mmap anonymous swapcache swapbacked compound_head compound_tail huge unevictable hwpoison nopage reserved(r) mlocked(r) mappedtodisk(r) private(r) private_2(r) owner_private(r) arch(r) uncached(r) readahead(o) slob_free(o) slub_frozen(o) slub_debug(o) (r) raw mode bits (o) overloaded bits # ./page-types flags page-count MB symbolic-flags long-symbolic-flags 0x0000000000000000 487369 1903 _________________________________ 0x0000000000000014 5 0 __R_D____________________________ referenced,dirty 0x0000000000000020 1 0 _____l___________________________ lru 0x0000000000000024 34 0 __R__l___________________________ referenced,lru 0x0000000000000028 3838 14 ___U_l___________________________ uptodate,lru 0x0001000000000028 48 0 ___U_l_______________________I___ uptodate,lru,readahead 0x000000000000002c 6478 25 __RU_l___________________________ referenced,uptodate,lru 0x000100000000002c 47 0 __RU_l_______________________I___ referenced,uptodate,lru,readahead 0x0000000000000040 8344 32 ______A__________________________ active 0x0000000000000060 1 0 _____lA__________________________ lru,active 0x0000000000000068 348 1 ___U_lA__________________________ uptodate,lru,active 0x0001000000000068 12 0 ___U_lA______________________I___ uptodate,lru,active,readahead 0x000000000000006c 988 3 __RU_lA__________________________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active 0x000100000000006c 48 0 __RU_lA______________________I___ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,readahead 0x0000000000004078 1 0 ___UDlA_______b__________________ uptodate,dirty,lru,active,swapbacked 0x000000000000407c 34 0 __RUDlA_______b__________________ referenced,uptodate,dirty,lru,active,swapbacked 0x0000000000000400 503 1 __________B______________________ buddy 0x0000000000000804 1 0 __R________M_____________________ referenced,mmap 0x0000000000000828 1029 4 ___U_l_____M_____________________ uptodate,lru,mmap 0x0001000000000828 43 0 ___U_l_____M_________________I___ uptodate,lru,mmap,readahead 0x000000000000082c 382 1 __RU_l_____M_____________________ referenced,uptodate,lru,mmap 0x000100000000082c 12 0 __RU_l_____M_________________I___ referenced,uptodate,lru,mmap,readahead 0x0000000000000868 192 0 ___U_lA____M_____________________ uptodate,lru,active,mmap 0x0001000000000868 12 0 ___U_lA____M_________________I___ uptodate,lru,active,mmap,readahead 0x000000000000086c 800 3 __RU_lA____M_____________________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap 0x000100000000086c 31 0 __RU_lA____M_________________I___ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap,readahead 0x0000000000004878 2 0 ___UDlA____M__b__________________ uptodate,dirty,lru,active,mmap,swapbacked 0x0000000000001000 492 1 ____________a____________________ anonymous 0x0000000000005808 4 0 ___U_______Ma_b__________________ uptodate,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked 0x0000000000005868 2839 11 ___U_lA____Ma_b__________________ uptodate,lru,active,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked 0x000000000000586c 30 0 __RU_lA____Ma_b__________________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked total 513968 2007 # ./page-types -r flags page-count MB symbolic-flags long-symbolic-flags 0x0000000000000000 468002 1828 _________________________________ 0x0000000100000000 19102 74 _____________________r___________ reserved 0x0000000000008000 41 0 _______________H_________________ compound_head 0x0000000000010000 188 0 ________________T________________ compound_tail 0x0000000000008014 1 0 __R_D__________H_________________ referenced,dirty,compound_head 0x0000000000010014 4 0 __R_D___________T________________ referenced,dirty,compound_tail 0x0000000000000020 1 0 _____l___________________________ lru 0x0000000800000024 34 0 __R__l__________________P________ referenced,lru,private 0x0000000000000028 3794 14 ___U_l___________________________ uptodate,lru 0x0001000000000028 46 0 ___U_l_______________________I___ uptodate,lru,readahead 0x0000000400000028 44 0 ___U_l_________________d_________ uptodate,lru,mappedtodisk 0x0001000400000028 2 0 ___U_l_________________d_____I___ uptodate,lru,mappedtodisk,readahead 0x000000000000002c 6434 25 __RU_l___________________________ referenced,uptodate,lru 0x000100000000002c 47 0 __RU_l_______________________I___ referenced,uptodate,lru,readahead 0x000000040000002c 14 0 __RU_l_________________d_________ referenced,uptodate,lru,mappedtodisk 0x000000080000002c 30 0 __RU_l__________________P________ referenced,uptodate,lru,private 0x0000000800000040 8124 31 ______A_________________P________ active,private 0x0000000000000040 219 0 ______A__________________________ active 0x0000000800000060 1 0 _____lA_________________P________ lru,active,private 0x0000000000000068 322 1 ___U_lA__________________________ uptodate,lru,active 0x0001000000000068 12 0 ___U_lA______________________I___ uptodate,lru,active,readahead 0x0000000400000068 13 0 ___U_lA________________d_________ uptodate,lru,active,mappedtodisk 0x0000000800000068 12 0 ___U_lA_________________P________ uptodate,lru,active,private 0x000000000000006c 977 3 __RU_lA__________________________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active 0x000100000000006c 48 0 __RU_lA______________________I___ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,readahead 0x000000040000006c 5 0 __RU_lA________________d_________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mappedtodisk 0x000000080000006c 3 0 __RU_lA_________________P________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,private 0x0000000c0000006c 3 0 __RU_lA________________dP________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mappedtodisk,private 0x0000000c00000068 1 0 ___U_lA________________dP________ uptodate,lru,active,mappedtodisk,private 0x0000000000004078 1 0 ___UDlA_______b__________________ uptodate,dirty,lru,active,swapbacked 0x000000000000407c 34 0 __RUDlA_______b__________________ referenced,uptodate,dirty,lru,active,swapbacked 0x0000000000000400 538 2 __________B______________________ buddy 0x0000000000000804 1 0 __R________M_____________________ referenced,mmap 0x0000000000000828 1029 4 ___U_l_____M_____________________ uptodate,lru,mmap 0x0001000000000828 43 0 ___U_l_____M_________________I___ uptodate,lru,mmap,readahead 0x000000000000082c 382 1 __RU_l_____M_____________________ referenced,uptodate,lru,mmap 0x000100000000082c 12 0 __RU_l_____M_________________I___ referenced,uptodate,lru,mmap,readahead 0x0000000000000868 192 0 ___U_lA____M_____________________ uptodate,lru,active,mmap 0x0001000000000868 12 0 ___U_lA____M_________________I___ uptodate,lru,active,mmap,readahead 0x000000000000086c 800 3 __RU_lA____M_____________________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap 0x000100000000086c 31 0 __RU_lA____M_________________I___ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap,readahead 0x0000000000004878 2 0 ___UDlA____M__b__________________ uptodate,dirty,lru,active,mmap,swapbacked 0x0000000000001000 492 1 ____________a____________________ anonymous 0x0000000000005008 2 0 ___U________a_b__________________ uptodate,anonymous,swapbacked 0x0000000000005808 4 0 ___U_______Ma_b__________________ uptodate,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked 0x000000000000580c 1 0 __RU_______Ma_b__________________ referenced,uptodate,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked 0x0000000000005868 2839 11 ___U_lA____Ma_b__________________ uptodate,lru,active,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked 0x000000000000586c 29 0 __RU_lA____Ma_b__________________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked total 513968 2007 # ./page-types --raw --list --no-summary --bits reserved offset count flags 0 15 _____________________r___________ 31 4 _____________________r___________ 159 97 _____________________r___________ 4096 2067 _____________________r___________ 6752 2390 _____________________r___________ 9355 3 _____________________r___________ 9728 14526 _____________________r___________ This patch: Introduce PageHuge(), which identifies huge/gigantic pages by their dedicated compound destructor functions. 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Mel Gorman authored
alloc_large_system_hash() has logic for freeing pages at the end of an excessively large power-of-two buffer that is a duplicate of what is in alloc_pages_exact(). This patch converts alloc_large_system_hash() to use alloc_pages_exact(). Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by:
Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Callers may speculatively call different allocators in order of preference trying to allocate a buffer of a given size. The order needed to allocate this may be larger than what the page allocator can normally handle. While the allocator mostly does the right thing, it should not direct reclaim or wakeup kswapd with a bogus order. This patch sanity checks the order in the slow path and returns NULL if it is too large. Signed-off-by:
Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
Currently, free_page_mlock() is only called from page_alloc.c. Thus, we can move it to page_alloc.c. Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
SLAB currently avoids checking a bitmap repeatedly by checking once and storing a flag. When the addition of nr_online_nodes as a cheaper version of num_online_nodes(), this check can be replaced by nr_online_nodes. (Christoph did a patch that this is lifted almost verbatim from) Signed-off-by:
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by:
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
num_online_nodes() is called in a number of places but most often by the page allocator when deciding whether the zonelist needs to be filtered based on cpusets or the zonelist cache. This is actually a heavy function and touches a number of cache lines. This patch stores the number of online nodes at boot time and updates the value when nodes get onlined and offlined. The value is then used in a number of important paths in place of num_online_nodes(). [rientjes@google.com: do not override definition of node_set_online() with macro] Signed-off-by:
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Local interrupts are disabled when freeing pages to the PCP list. Part of that free checks what the migratetype of the pageblock the page is in but it checks this with interrupts disabled and interupts should never be disabled longer than necessary. This patch checks the pagetype with interrupts enabled with the impact that it is possible a page is freed to the wrong list when a pageblock changes type. As that block is now already considered mixed from an anti-fragmentation perspective, it's not of vital importance. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
When pages are being freed to the buddy allocator, the zone NR_FREE_PAGES counter must be updated. In the case of bulk per-cpu page freeing, it's updated once per page. This retouches cache lines more than necessary. Update the counters one per per-cpu bulk free. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
ALLOC_WMARK_MIN, ALLOC_WMARK_LOW and ALLOC_WMARK_HIGH determin whether pages_min, pages_low or pages_high is used as the zone watermark when allocating the pages. Two branches in the allocator hotpath determine which watermark to use. This patch uses the flags as an array index into a watermark array that is indexed with WMARK_* defines accessed via helpers. All call sites that use zone->pages_* are updated to use the helpers for accessing the values and the array offsets for setting. Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
A number of sanity checks are made on each page allocation and free including that the page count is zero. page_count() checks for compound pages and checks the count of the head page if true. However, in these paths, we do not care if the page is compound or not as the count of each tail page should also be zero. This patch makes two changes to the use of page_count() in the free path. It converts one check of page_count() to a VM_BUG_ON() as the count should have been unconditionally checked earlier in the free path. It also avoids checking for compound pages. [mel@csn.ul.ie: Wrote changelog] Signed-off-by:
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Reviewed-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
There is a zonelist cache which is used to track zones that are not in the allowed cpuset or found to be recently full. This is to reduce cache footprint on large machines. On smaller machines, it just incurs cost for no gain. This patch only uses the zonelist cache when there are NUMA nodes. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
free_page_mlock() tests and clears PG_mlocked using locked versions of the bit operations. If set, it disables interrupts to update counters and this happens on every page free even though interrupts are disabled very shortly afterwards a second time. This is wasteful. This patch splits what free_page_mlock() does. The bit check is still made. However, the update of counters is delayed until the interrupts are disabled and the non-lock version for clearing the bit is used. One potential weirdness with this split is that the counters do not get updated if the bad_page() check is triggered but a system showing bad pages is getting screwed already. Signed-off-by:
Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
get_pageblock_migratetype() is potentially called twice for every page free. Once, when being freed to the pcp lists and once when being freed back to buddy. When freeing from the pcp lists, it is known what the pageblock type was at the time of free so use it rather than rechecking. In low memory situations under memory pressure, this might skew anti-fragmentation slightly but the interference is minimal and decisions that are fragmenting memory are being made anyway. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
__rmqueue_fallback() is in the slow path but has only one call site. Because there is only one call-site, this function can then be inlined without causing text bloat. On an x86-based config, it made no difference as the savings were padded out by NOP instructions. Milage varies but text will either decrease in size or remain static. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
buffered_rmqueue() is in the fast path so inline it. Because it only has one call site, this function can then be inlined without causing text bloat. On an x86-based config, it made no difference as the savings were padded out by NOP instructions. Milage varies but text will either decrease in size or remain static. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Inline __rmqueue_smallest by altering flow very slightly so that there is only one call site. Because there is only one call-site, this function can then be inlined without causing text bloat. On an x86-based config, this patch reduces text by 16 bytes. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Allocations that specify __GFP_HIGH get the ALLOC_HIGH flag. If these flags are equal to each other, we can eliminate a branch. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Suggested the hack] Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Factor out the mapping between GFP and alloc_flags only once. Once factored out, it only needs to be calculated once but some care must be taken. [neilb@suse.de says] As the test: - if (((p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC) || unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE))) - && !in_interrupt()) { - if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC)) { has been replaced with a slightly weaker one: + if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS) { Without care, this would allow recursion into the allocator via direct reclaim. This patch ensures we do not recurse when PF_MEMALLOC is set but TF_MEMDIE callers are now allowed to directly reclaim where they would have been prevented in the past. Signed-off-by:Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
GFP mask is converted into a migratetype when deciding which pagelist to take a page from. However, it is happening multiple times per allocation, at least once per zone traversed. Calculate it once. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
get_page_from_freelist() can be called multiple times for an allocation. Part of this calculates the preferred_zone which is the first usable zone in the zonelist but the zone depends on the GFP flags specified at the beginning of the allocation call. This patch calculates preferred_zone once. It's safe to do this because if preferred_zone is NULL at the start of the call, no amount of direct reclaim or other actions will change the fact the allocation will fail. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove (void) casts] Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
On low-memory systems, anti-fragmentation gets disabled as there is nothing it can do and it would just incur overhead shuffling pages between lists constantly. Currently the check is made in the free page fast path for every page. This patch moves it to a slow path. On machines with low memory, there will be small amount of additional overhead as pages get shuffled between lists but it should quickly settle. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
The core of the page allocator is one giant function which allocates memory on the stack and makes calculations that may not be needed for every allocation. This patch breaks up the allocator path into fast and slow paths for clarity. Note the slow paths are still inlined but the entry is marked unlikely. If they were not inlined, it actally increases text size to generate the as there is only one call site. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
It is possible with __GFP_THISNODE that no zones are suitable. This patch makes sure the check is only made once. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Callers of alloc_pages_node() can optionally specify -1 as a node to mean "allocate from the current node". However, a number of the callers in fast paths know for a fact their node is valid. To avoid a comparison and branch, this patch adds alloc_pages_exact_node() that only checks the nid with VM_BUG_ON(). Callers that know their node is valid are then converted. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
No user of the allocator API should be passing in an order >= MAX_ORDER but we check for it on each and every allocation. Delete this check and make it a VM_BUG_ON check further down the call path. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/VM_BUG_ON/WARN_ON_ONCE/] Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
The start of a large patch series to clean up and optimise the page allocator. The performance improvements are in a wide range depending on the exact machine but the results I've seen so fair are approximately; kernbench: 0 to 0.12% (elapsed time) 0.49% to 3.20% (sys time) aim9: -4% to 30% (for page_test and brk_test) tbench: -1% to 4% hackbench: -2.5% to 3.45% (mostly within the noise though) netperf-udp -1.34% to 4.06% (varies between machines a bit) netperf-tcp -0.44% to 5.22% (varies between machines a bit) I haven't sysbench figures at hand, but previously they were within the -0.5% to 2% range. On netperf, the client and server were bound to opposite number CPUs to maximise the problems with cache line bouncing of the struct pages so I expect different people to report different results for netperf depending on their exact machine and how they ran the test (different machines, same cpus client/server, shared cache but two threads client/server, different socket client/server etc). I also measured the vmlinux sizes for a single x86-based config with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO enabled but not CONFIG_DEBUG_VM. The core of the .config is based on the Debian Lenny kernel config so I expect it to be reasonably typical. This patch: __alloc_pages_internal is the core page allocator function but essentially it is an alias of __alloc_pages_nodemask. Naming a publicly available and exported function "internal" is also a big ugly. This patch renames __alloc_pages_internal() to __alloc_pages_nodemask() and deletes the old nodemask function. Warning - This patch renames an exported symbol. No kernel driver is affected by external drivers calling __alloc_pages_internal() should change the call to __alloc_pages_nodemask() without any alteration of parameters. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
On an x86_64 with 4GB ram, tcp_init()'s call to alloc_large_system_hash(), to allocate tcp_hashinfo.ehash, is now triggering an mmotm WARN_ON_ONCE on order >= MAX_ORDER - it's hoping for order 11. alloc_large_system_hash() had better make its own check on the order. Signed-off-by:
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Miao Xie authored
Fix allocating page cache/slab object on the unallowed node when memory spread is set by updating tasks' mems_allowed after its cpuset's mems is changed. In order to update tasks' mems_allowed in time, we must modify the code of memory policy. Because the memory policy is applied in the process's context originally. After applying this patch, one task directly manipulates anothers mems_allowed, and we use alloc_lock in the task_struct to protect mems_allowed and memory policy of the task. But in the fast path, we didn't use lock to protect them, because adding a lock may lead to performance regression. But if we don't add a lock,the task might see no nodes when changing cpuset's mems_allowed to some non-overlapping set. In order to avoid it, we set all new allowed nodes, then clear newly disallowed ones. [lee.schermerhorn@hp.com: The rework of mpol_new() to extract the adjusting of the node mask to apply cpuset and mpol flags "context" breaks set_mempolicy() and mbind() with MPOL_PREFERRED and a NULL nodemask--i.e., explicit local allocation. Fix this by adding the check for MPOL_PREFERRED and empty node mask to mpol_new_mpolicy(). Remove the now unneeded 'nodes = NULL' from mpol_new(). Note that mpol_new_mempolicy() is always called with a non-NULL 'nodes' parameter now that it has been removed from mpol_new(). Therefore, we don't need to test nodes for NULL before testing it for 'empty'. However, just to be extra paranoid, add a VM_BUG_ON() to verify this assumption.] [lee.schermerhorn@hp.com: I don't think the function name 'mpol_new_mempolicy' is descriptive enough to differentiate it from mpol_new(). This function applies cpuset set context, usually constraining nodes to those allowed by the cpuset. However, when the 'RELATIVE_NODES flag is set, it also translates the nodes. So I settled on 'mpol_set_nodemask()', because the comment block for mpol_new() mentions that we need to call this function to "set nodes". Some additional minor line length, whitespace and typo cleanup.] Signed-off-by:
Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Miao Xie authored
Fix the bug that the kernel didn't spread page cache/slab object evenly over all the allowed nodes when spread flags were set by updating tasks' page/slab spread flags in time. Signed-off-by:
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Miao Xie authored
The kernel still allocates the page caches on old node after modifying its cpuset's mems when 'memory_spread_page' was set, or it didn't spread the page cache evenly over all the nodes that faulting task is allowed to usr after memory_spread_page was set. it is caused by the old mem_allowed and flags of the task, the current kernel doesn't updates them unless some function invokes cpuset_update_task_memory_state(), it is too late sometimes.We must update the mem_allowed and the flags of the tasks in time. Slab has the same problem. The following patches fix this bug by updating tasks' mem_allowed and spread flag after its cpuset's mems or spread flag is changed. This patch: Extract a function from cpuset_update_task_memory_state(). It will be used later for update tasks' page/slab spread flags after its cpuset's flag is set Signed-off-by:
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H Hartley Sweeten authored
get_dirty_limits() calls clip_bdi_dirty_limit() and task_dirty_limit() with variable pbdi_dirty as one of the arguments. This variable is an unsigned long * but both functions expect it to be a long *. This causes the following sparse warnings: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different signedness) expected long *pbdi_dirty got unsigned long *pbdi_dirty warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness) expected long *pdirty got unsigned long *pbdi_dirty Fix the warnings by changing the long * to unsigned long * in both functions. Signed-off-by:H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by:
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
Commit 33c120ed ("more aggressively use lumpy reclaim") increased how aggressive lumpy reclaim was by isolating both active and inactive pages for asynchronous lumpy reclaim on costly-high-order pages and for cheap-high-order when memory pressure is high. However, if the system is under heavy pressure and there are dirty pages, asynchronous IO may not be sufficient to reclaim a suitable page in time. This patch causes the caller to enter synchronous lumpy reclaim for costly-high-order pages and for cheap-high-order pages when under memory pressure. Minchan.kim@gmail.com said: Andy added synchronous lumpy reclaim with c661b078. At that time, lumpy reclaim is not agressive. His intension is just for high-order users.(above PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER). After some time, Rik added aggressive lumpy reclaim with 33c120ed. His intention was to do lumpy reclaim when high-order users and trouble getting a small set of contiguous pages. So we also have to add synchronous pageout for small set of contiguous pages. Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Acked-by:
Minchan Kim <Minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
Move more documentation for get_user_pages_fast into the new kerneldoc comment. Add some comments for get_user_pages as well. Also, move get_user_pages_fast declaration up to get_user_pages. It wasn't there initially because it was once a static inline function. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Wu Fengguang authored
Now that we do readahead for sequential mmap reads, here is a simple evaluation of the impacts, and one further optimization. It's an NFS-root debian desktop system, readahead size = 60 pages. The numbers are grabbed after a fresh boot into console. approach pgmajfault RA miss ratio mmap IO count avg IO size(pages) A 383 31.6% 383 11 B 225 32.4% 390 11 C 224 32.6% 307 13 case A: mmap sync/async readahead disabled case B: mmap sync/async readahead enabled, with enforced full async readahead size case C: mmap sync/async readahead enabled, with enforced full sync/async readahead size or: A = vanilla 2.6.30-rc1 B = A plus mmap readahead C = B plus this patch The numbers show that - there are good possibilities for random mmap reads to trigger readahead - 'pgmajfault' is reduced by 1/3, due to the _async_ nature of readahead - case C can further reduce IO count by 1/4 - readahead miss ratios are not quite affected The theory is - readahead is _good_ for clustered random reads, and can perform _better_ than readaround because they could be _async_. - async readahead size is guaranteed to be larger than readaround size, and they are _async_, hence will mostly behave better However for B - sync readahead size could be smaller than readaround size, hence may make things worse by produce more smaller IOs which will be fixed by this patch. Final conclusion: - mmap readahead reduced major faults by 1/3 and no obvious overheads; - mmap io can be further reduced by 1/4 with this patch. Signed-off-by:
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Wu Fengguang authored
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Wu Fengguang authored
Introduce page cache context based readahead algorithm. This is to better support concurrent read streams in general. RATIONALE --------- The current readahead algorithm detects interleaved reads in a _passive_ way. Given a sequence of interleaved streams 1,1001,2,1002,3,4,1003,5,1004,1005,6,... By checking for (offset == prev_offset + 1), it will discover the sequentialness between 3,4 and between 1004,1005, and start doing sequential readahead for the individual streams since page 4 and page 1005. The context readahead algorithm guarantees to discover the sequentialness no matter how the streams are interleaved. For the above example, it will start sequential readahead since page 2 and 1002. The trick is to poke for page @offset-1 in the page cache when it has no other clues on the sequentialness of request @offset: if the current requenst belongs to a sequential stream, that stream must have accessed page @offset-1 recently, and the page will still be cached now. So if page @offset-1 is there, we can take request @offset as a sequential access. BENEFICIARIES ------------- - strictly interleaved reads i.e. 1,1001,2,1002,3,1003,... the current readahead will take them as silly random reads; the context readahead will take them as two sequential streams. - cooperative IO processes i.e. NFS and SCST They create a thread pool, farming off (sequential) IO requests to different threads which will be performing interleaved IO. It was not easy(or possible) to reliably tell from file->f_ra all those cooperative processes working on the same sequential stream, since they will have different file->f_ra instances. And NFSD's file->f_ra is particularly unusable, since their file objects are dynamically created for each request. The nfsd does have code trying to restore the f_ra bits, but not satisfactory. The new scheme is to detect the sequential pattern via looking up the page cache, which provides one single and consistent view of the pages recently accessed. That makes sequential detection for cooperative processes possible. USER REPORT ----------- Vladislav recommends the addition of context readahead as a result of his SCST benchmarks. It leads to 6%~40% performance gains in various cases and achieves equal performance in others. http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/19/239 OVERHEADS --------- In theory, it introduces one extra page cache lookup per random read. However the below benchmark shows context readahead to be slightly faster, wondering.. Randomly reading 200MB amount of data on a sparse file, repeat 20 times for each block size. The average throughputs are: original ra context ra gain 4K random reads: 65.561MB/s 65.648MB/s +0.1% 16K random reads: 124.767MB/s 124.951MB/s +0.1% 64K random reads: 162.123MB/s 162.278MB/s +0.1% Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Tested-by:
Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net> Signed-off-by:
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Wu Fengguang authored
Split all readahead cases, and move the random one to bottom. No behavior changes. This is to prepare for the introduction of context readahead, and make it easy for inserting accounting/tracing points for each case. Signed-off-by:
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Wu Fengguang authored
The counterpart of radix_tree_next_hole(). To be used by context readahead. Signed-off-by:
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