Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] quicklist shouldn't be proportional to # ofCPUs

From: Mike Travis
Date: Mon Aug 25 2008 - 14:48:37 EST


KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Thank you good point out!
>
>>> @@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ static unsigned long max_pages(unsigned
>>>
>>> max = node_free_pages / FRACTION_OF_NODE_MEM;
>>>
>>> - num_cpus_per_node = cpus_weight_nr(node_to_cpumask(node));
>>> - max /= num_cpus_per_node;
>>> + node_cpumask = node_to_cpumask(node);
>>> + max /= cpus_weight_nr(node_cpumask);
>>>
>>> return max(max, min_pages);
>>> }
>> humm, I thought we wanted to keep cpumask_t stuff away from our stack -
>> since on insanely large SGI boxen (/me looks at mike) the thing becomes
>> 512 bytes.
>
> Hm, interesting.
> I think following patch fill your point, right?
>
> but I worry about it works on sparc64...
>
>
> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> mm/quicklist.c | 9 ++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: b/mm/quicklist.c
> ===================================================================
> --- a/mm/quicklist.c
> +++ b/mm/quicklist.c
> @@ -26,7 +26,10 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct quicklist, quickli
> static unsigned long max_pages(unsigned long min_pages)
> {
> unsigned long node_free_pages, max;
> - struct zone *zones = NODE_DATA(numa_node_id())->node_zones;
> + int node = numa_node_id();
> + struct zone *zones = NODE_DATA(node)->node_zones;
> + int num_cpus_on_node;
> + node_to_cpumask_ptr(cpumask_on_node, node);
>
> node_free_pages =
> #ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
> @@ -38,6 +41,10 @@ static unsigned long max_pages(unsigned
> zone_page_state(&zones[ZONE_NORMAL], NR_FREE_PAGES);
>
> max = node_free_pages / FRACTION_OF_NODE_MEM;
> +
> + num_cpus_on_node = cpus_weight_nr(*cpumask_on_node);
> + max /= num_cpus_on_node;
> +
> return max(max, min_pages);
> }
>
>

Exactly! And (many thanks to them!) the sparc maintainers have
implemented a similar internal function definition for node_to_cpumask_ptr().

Mike
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