slab: NUMA kmem_cache diet
Some NUMA machines have a big MAX_NUMNODES (possibly 1024), but fewer
possible nodes. This patch dynamically sizes the 'struct kmem_cache' to
allocate only needed space.
I moved nodelists[] field at the end of struct kmem_cache, and use the
following computation in kmem_cache_init()
cache_cache.buffer_size = offsetof(struct kmem_cache, nodelists) +
nr_node_ids * sizeof(struct kmem_list3 *);
On my two nodes x86_64 machine, kmem_cache.obj_size is now 192 instead of 704
(This is because on x86_64, MAX_NUMNODES is 64)
On bigger NUMA setups, this might reduce the gfporder of "cache_cache"
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 00f98b9..1f2627c 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -389,7 +389,6 @@
unsigned int buffer_size;
u32 reciprocal_buffer_size;
/* 3) touched by every alloc & free from the backend */
- struct kmem_list3 *nodelists[MAX_NUMNODES];
unsigned int flags; /* constant flags */
unsigned int num; /* # of objs per slab */
@@ -444,6 +443,17 @@
int obj_offset;
int obj_size;
#endif
+ /*
+ * We put nodelists[] at the end of kmem_cache, because we want to size
+ * this array to nr_node_ids slots instead of MAX_NUMNODES
+ * (see kmem_cache_init())
+ * We still use [MAX_NUMNODES] and not [1] or [0] because cache_cache
+ * is statically defined, so we reserve the max number of nodes.
+ */
+ struct kmem_list3 *nodelists[MAX_NUMNODES];
+ /*
+ * Do not add fields after nodelists[]
+ */
};
#define CFLGS_OFF_SLAB (0x80000000UL)
@@ -678,9 +688,6 @@
.shared = 1,
.buffer_size = sizeof(struct kmem_cache),
.name = "kmem_cache",
-#if DEBUG
- .obj_size = sizeof(struct kmem_cache),
-#endif
};
#define BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC 0x01020304ul
@@ -1440,6 +1447,15 @@
cache_cache.array[smp_processor_id()] = &initarray_cache.cache;
cache_cache.nodelists[node] = &initkmem_list3[CACHE_CACHE];
+ /*
+ * struct kmem_cache size depends on nr_node_ids, which
+ * can be less than MAX_NUMNODES.
+ */
+ cache_cache.buffer_size = offsetof(struct kmem_cache, nodelists) +
+ nr_node_ids * sizeof(struct kmem_list3 *);
+#if DEBUG
+ cache_cache.obj_size = cache_cache.buffer_size;
+#endif
cache_cache.buffer_size = ALIGN(cache_cache.buffer_size,
cache_line_size());
cache_cache.reciprocal_buffer_size =