Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: use kvzalloc for swap_info_struct allocation

[Vasily Averin]

On 11/5/18 3:50 AM, Huang, Ying wrote:
> Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> commit a2468cc9bfdf ("swap: choose swap device according to numa node")
>> increased size of swap_info_struct up to 44 Kbytes, now it requires
>> 4th order page.
> 
> Why swap_info_struct could be so large?  Because MAX_NUMNODES could be
> thousands so that 'avail_lists' field could be tens KB?  If so, I think
> it's fair to use kvzalloc().  Can you add one line comment?  Because
> struct swap_info_struct is quite small in default configuration.

I was incorrect not 44Kb but 40kb should be here.
We have found CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT=10 in new RHEL7 update 6 kernel,
default ubuntu kernels have the same setting too.

crash> struct swap_info_struct -o
struct swap_info_struct {
      [0] unsigned long flags;
      [8] short prio;
           ...
    [140] spinlock_t lock;
    [144] struct plist_node list;
    [184] struct plist_node avail_lists[1024]; <<<< here
  [41144] struct swap_cluster_info *cluster_info;
  [41152] struct swap_cluster_list free_clusters;
          ...
  [41224] spinlock_t cont_lock;
}
SIZE: 41232

struct swap_info_struct {
        ...
        RH_KABI_EXTEND(struct plist_node avail_lists[MAX_NUMNODES]) /* entry in swap_avail_head */
        ...
}

#define MAX_NUMNODES    (1 << NODES_SHIFT)

#ifdef CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT 
#define NODES_SHIFT     CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT
#else
#define NODES_SHIFT     0
#endif

/boot/config-4.15.0-38-generic:CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT=10