Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Make the batch size of the percpu_counterconfigurable

From: Tim Chen
Date: Tue May 21 2013 - 20:43:13 EST


On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 16:41 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> I think we could use __percpu_counter_add() unconditionally here and
> just do
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> #define vm_committed_as_batch 0
> #else
> int vm_committed_as_batch;
> #endif
>
> The EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_committed_as_batch) is unneeded.
>

Thanks. I've made the changes suggested.

> > void __init mmap_init(void)
> > {
> > int ret;
> >
> > ret = percpu_counter_init(&vm_committed_as, 0);
> > + vm_committed_as_batch = mm_compute_batch();
> > VM_BUG_ON(ret);
> > vm_region_jar = KMEM_CACHE(vm_region, SLAB_PANIC);
>
> I'm not sure that CONFIG_MMU=n && CONFIG_SMP=y even exists. Perhaps it
> does. But there's no point in ruling out that option here.
>
> The nommu code becomes identical to the mmu code so we should put it in
> a shared file. I suppose mmap.c would be as good a place as any.
>

I've consolidated things in mman.h.

> We could make mm_compute_batch() __init and call it from mm_init().
> But really it should be __meminit and there should be a memory-hotplug
> notifier handler which adjusts vm_committed_as_batch's value.
>

I'll spin off another version of the patch later to add the
memory-hotplug notifier. In the mean time, does the following looks
good to you?

Thanks.

Tim

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mman.h | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
mm/mmap.c | 4 ++++
mm/nommu.c | 4 ++++
3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mman.h b/include/linux/mman.h
index 9aa863d..443bcae 100644
--- a/include/linux/mman.h
+++ b/include/linux/mman.h
@@ -10,12 +10,30 @@
extern int sysctl_overcommit_memory;
extern int sysctl_overcommit_ratio;
extern struct percpu_counter vm_committed_as;
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+extern int vm_committed_as_batch;
+
+static inline void mm_compute_batch(void)
+{
+ int nr = num_present_cpus();
+ int batch = max(32, nr*2);
+
+ /* batch size set to 0.4% of (total memory/#cpus) */
+ vm_committed_as_batch = max((int) (totalram_pages/nr) / 256, batch);
+}
+#else
+#define vm_committed_as_batch 0
+
+static inline void mm_compute_batch(void)
+{
+}
+#endif

unsigned long vm_memory_committed(void);

static inline void vm_acct_memory(long pages)
{
- percpu_counter_add(&vm_committed_as, pages);
+ __percpu_counter_add(&vm_committed_as, pages, vm_committed_as_batch);
}

static inline void vm_unacct_memory(long pages)
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index f681e18..55c8773 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -3145,11 +3145,15 @@ void mm_drop_all_locks(struct mm_struct *mm)
/*
* initialise the VMA slab
*/
+
+int vm_committed_as_batch;
+
void __init mmap_init(void)
{
int ret;

ret = percpu_counter_init(&vm_committed_as, 0);
+ mm_compute_batch();
VM_BUG_ON(ret);
}

diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 298884d..9ad16ba 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -527,11 +527,15 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(brk, unsigned long, brk)
/*
* initialise the VMA and region record slabs
*/
+
+int vm_committed_as_batch;
+
void __init mmap_init(void)
{
int ret;

ret = percpu_counter_init(&vm_committed_as, 0);
+ mm_compute_batch();
VM_BUG_ON(ret);
vm_region_jar = KMEM_CACHE(vm_region, SLAB_PANIC);
}
--
1.7.11.7



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