kernel-ark/include/linux/gfp.h
Christoph Lameter 8fce4d8e3b [PATCH] slab: Node rotor for freeing alien caches and remote per cpu pages.
The cache reaper currently tries to free all alien caches and all remote
per cpu pages in each pass of cache_reap.  For a machines with large number
of nodes (such as Altix) this may lead to sporadic delays of around ~10ms.
Interrupts are disabled while reclaiming creating unacceptable delays.

This patch changes that behavior by adding a per cpu reap_node variable.
Instead of attempting to free all caches, we free only one alien cache and
the per cpu pages from one remote node.  That reduces the time spend in
cache_reap.  However, doing so will lengthen the time it takes to
completely drain all remote per cpu pagesets and all alien caches.  The
time needed will grow with the number of nodes in the system.  All caches
are drained when they overflow their respective capacity.  So the drawback
here is only that a bit of memory may be wasted for awhile longer.

Details:

1. Rename drain_remote_pages to drain_node_pages to allow the specification
   of the node to drain of pcp pages.

2. Add additional functions init_reap_node, next_reap_node for NUMA
   that manage a per cpu reap_node counter.

3. Add a reap_alien function that reaps only from the current reap_node.

For us this seems to be a critical issue.  Holdoffs of an average of ~7ms
cause some HPC benchmarks to slow down significantly.  F.e.  NAS parallel
slows down dramatically.  NAS parallel has a 12-16 seconds runtime w/o rotor
compared to 5.8 secs with the rotor patches.  It gets down to 5.05 secs with
the additional interrupt holdoff reductions.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-09 19:47:38 -08:00

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#ifndef __LINUX_GFP_H
#define __LINUX_GFP_H
#include <linux/mmzone.h>
#include <linux/stddef.h>
#include <linux/linkage.h>
#include <linux/config.h>
struct vm_area_struct;
/*
* GFP bitmasks..
*/
/* Zone modifiers in GFP_ZONEMASK (see linux/mmzone.h - low three bits) */
#define __GFP_DMA ((__force gfp_t)0x01u)
#define __GFP_HIGHMEM ((__force gfp_t)0x02u)
#ifdef CONFIG_DMA_IS_DMA32
#define __GFP_DMA32 ((__force gfp_t)0x01) /* ZONE_DMA is ZONE_DMA32 */
#elif BITS_PER_LONG < 64
#define __GFP_DMA32 ((__force gfp_t)0x00) /* ZONE_NORMAL is ZONE_DMA32 */
#else
#define __GFP_DMA32 ((__force gfp_t)0x04) /* Has own ZONE_DMA32 */
#endif
/*
* Action modifiers - doesn't change the zoning
*
* __GFP_REPEAT: Try hard to allocate the memory, but the allocation attempt
* _might_ fail. This depends upon the particular VM implementation.
*
* __GFP_NOFAIL: The VM implementation _must_ retry infinitely: the caller
* cannot handle allocation failures.
*
* __GFP_NORETRY: The VM implementation must not retry indefinitely.
*/
#define __GFP_WAIT ((__force gfp_t)0x10u) /* Can wait and reschedule? */
#define __GFP_HIGH ((__force gfp_t)0x20u) /* Should access emergency pools? */
#define __GFP_IO ((__force gfp_t)0x40u) /* Can start physical IO? */
#define __GFP_FS ((__force gfp_t)0x80u) /* Can call down to low-level FS? */
#define __GFP_COLD ((__force gfp_t)0x100u) /* Cache-cold page required */
#define __GFP_NOWARN ((__force gfp_t)0x200u) /* Suppress page allocation failure warning */
#define __GFP_REPEAT ((__force gfp_t)0x400u) /* Retry the allocation. Might fail */
#define __GFP_NOFAIL ((__force gfp_t)0x800u) /* Retry for ever. Cannot fail */
#define __GFP_NORETRY ((__force gfp_t)0x1000u)/* Do not retry. Might fail */
#define __GFP_NO_GROW ((__force gfp_t)0x2000u)/* Slab internal usage */
#define __GFP_COMP ((__force gfp_t)0x4000u)/* Add compound page metadata */
#define __GFP_ZERO ((__force gfp_t)0x8000u)/* Return zeroed page on success */
#define __GFP_NOMEMALLOC ((__force gfp_t)0x10000u) /* Don't use emergency reserves */
#define __GFP_HARDWALL ((__force gfp_t)0x20000u) /* Enforce hardwall cpuset memory allocs */
#define __GFP_BITS_SHIFT 20 /* Room for 20 __GFP_FOO bits */
#define __GFP_BITS_MASK ((__force gfp_t)((1 << __GFP_BITS_SHIFT) - 1))
/* if you forget to add the bitmask here kernel will crash, period */
#define GFP_LEVEL_MASK (__GFP_WAIT|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS| \
__GFP_COLD|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_REPEAT| \
__GFP_NOFAIL|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NO_GROW|__GFP_COMP| \
__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL)
/* GFP_ATOMIC means both !wait (__GFP_WAIT not set) and use emergency pool */
#define GFP_ATOMIC (__GFP_HIGH)
#define GFP_NOIO (__GFP_WAIT)
#define GFP_NOFS (__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO)
#define GFP_KERNEL (__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS)
#define GFP_USER (__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS | __GFP_HARDWALL)
#define GFP_HIGHUSER (__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS | __GFP_HARDWALL | \
__GFP_HIGHMEM)
/* Flag - indicates that the buffer will be suitable for DMA. Ignored on some
platforms, used as appropriate on others */
#define GFP_DMA __GFP_DMA
/* 4GB DMA on some platforms */
#define GFP_DMA32 __GFP_DMA32
static inline int gfp_zone(gfp_t gfp)
{
int zone = GFP_ZONEMASK & (__force int) gfp;
BUG_ON(zone >= GFP_ZONETYPES);
return zone;
}
/*
* There is only one page-allocator function, and two main namespaces to
* it. The alloc_page*() variants return 'struct page *' and as such
* can allocate highmem pages, the *get*page*() variants return
* virtual kernel addresses to the allocated page(s).
*/
/*
* We get the zone list from the current node and the gfp_mask.
* This zone list contains a maximum of MAXNODES*MAX_NR_ZONES zones.
*
* For the normal case of non-DISCONTIGMEM systems the NODE_DATA() gets
* optimized to &contig_page_data at compile-time.
*/
#ifndef HAVE_ARCH_FREE_PAGE
static inline void arch_free_page(struct page *page, int order) { }
#endif
extern struct page *
FASTCALL(__alloc_pages(gfp_t, unsigned int, struct zonelist *));
static inline struct page *alloc_pages_node(int nid, gfp_t gfp_mask,
unsigned int order)
{
if (unlikely(order >= MAX_ORDER))
return NULL;
/* Unknown node is current node */
if (nid < 0)
nid = numa_node_id();
return __alloc_pages(gfp_mask, order,
NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zonelists + gfp_zone(gfp_mask));
}
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
extern struct page *alloc_pages_current(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned order);
static inline struct page *
alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
{
if (unlikely(order >= MAX_ORDER))
return NULL;
return alloc_pages_current(gfp_mask, order);
}
extern struct page *alloc_page_vma(gfp_t gfp_mask,
struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr);
#else
#define alloc_pages(gfp_mask, order) \
alloc_pages_node(numa_node_id(), gfp_mask, order)
#define alloc_page_vma(gfp_mask, vma, addr) alloc_pages(gfp_mask, 0)
#endif
#define alloc_page(gfp_mask) alloc_pages(gfp_mask, 0)
extern unsigned long FASTCALL(__get_free_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order));
extern unsigned long FASTCALL(get_zeroed_page(gfp_t gfp_mask));
#define __get_free_page(gfp_mask) \
__get_free_pages((gfp_mask),0)
#define __get_dma_pages(gfp_mask, order) \
__get_free_pages((gfp_mask) | GFP_DMA,(order))
extern void FASTCALL(__free_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order));
extern void FASTCALL(free_pages(unsigned long addr, unsigned int order));
extern void FASTCALL(free_hot_page(struct page *page));
extern void FASTCALL(free_cold_page(struct page *page));
#define __free_page(page) __free_pages((page), 0)
#define free_page(addr) free_pages((addr),0)
void page_alloc_init(void);
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
void drain_node_pages(int node);
#else
static inline void drain_node_pages(int node) { };
#endif
#endif /* __LINUX_GFP_H */