Hi,
It seems shortening struct page is all the rage at the moment and I
didnt want to be left out. On some 64bit architectures (sparc64 and
ppc64 for example) all memory is allocated in the DMA zone. Therefore
there is no reason to waste 8 bytes per page when every page points to
the same zone!
Here is a very simple patch (ppc64 only so far). For archs that have
more than one memory zone, they should define the following:
#define ARCH_NR_ZONES 3
#define GET_PAGE_ZONE(page) (page)->zone
#define SET_PAGE_ZONE(page, __zone) (page)->zone = (__zone)
Next up will be modifying the VM so it doesnt iterate over all 3 zones
if ARCH_NR_ZONES = 1. I did this a while ago with the old VM and it made
a noticable difference but I need to retry it to see if this is still
the case.
Anton
diff -ru --exclude-from=exclude linuxppc_2_4_devel_work/include/asm-ppc64/page.h linuxppc_2_4_devel_work_onezone/include/asm-ppc64/page.h
--- linuxppc_2_4_devel_work/include/asm-ppc64/page.h Tue Dec 18 18:50:35 2001
+++ linuxppc_2_4_devel_work_onezone/include/asm-ppc64/page.h Sun Jan 6 22:18:45 2002
@@ -223,5 +223,9 @@
#define MAP_NR(addr) (__pa(addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT)
+#define ARCH_NR_ZONES 1
+#define GET_PAGE_ZONE(page) (contig_page_data.node_zones)
+#define SET_PAGE_ZONE(page, zone)
+
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* _PPC64_PAGE_H */
diff -ru --exclude-from=exclude linuxppc_2_4_devel_work/include/linux/mm.h linuxppc_2_4_devel_work_onezone/include/linux/mm.h
--- linuxppc_2_4_devel_work/include/linux/mm.h Sun Jan 6 15:50:56 2002
+++ linuxppc_2_4_devel_work_onezone/include/linux/mm.h Sun Jan 6 23:19:58 2002
@@ -164,7 +164,9 @@
struct buffer_head * buffers; /* Buffer maps us to a disk block. */
void *virtual; /* Kernel virtual address (NULL if
not kmapped, ie. highmem) */
+#if ARCH_NR_ZONES > 1
struct zone_struct *zone; /* Memory zone we are in. */
+#endif
} mem_map_t;
/*
diff -ru --exclude-from=exclude linuxppc_2_4_devel_work/mm/page_alloc.c linuxppc_2_4_devel_work_onezone/mm/page_alloc.c
--- linuxppc_2_4_devel_work/mm/page_alloc.c Wed Nov 21 13:43:40 2001
+++ linuxppc_2_4_devel_work_onezone/mm/page_alloc.c Sun Jan 6 22:18:45 2002
@@ -54,7 +54,11 @@
/*
* Temporary debugging check.
*/
+#if ARCH_NR_ZONES > 1
#define BAD_RANGE(zone,x) (((zone) != (x)->zone) || (((x)-mem_map) < (zone)->zone_start_mapnr) || (((x)-mem_map) >= (zone)->zone_start_mapnr+(zone)->size))
+#else
+#define BAD_RANGE(zone,x) 0
+#endif
/*
* Buddy system. Hairy. You really aren't expected to understand this
@@ -90,7 +94,7 @@
goto local_freelist;
back_local_freelist:
- zone = page->zone;
+ zone = GET_PAGE_ZONE(page);
mask = (~0UL) << order;
base = zone->zone_mem_map;
@@ -255,7 +259,7 @@
entry = local_pages->next;
do {
tmp = list_entry(entry, struct page, list);
- if (tmp->index == order && memclass(tmp->zone, classzone)) {
+ if (tmp->index == order && memclass(GET_PAGE_ZONE(tmp), classzone)) {
list_del(entry);
current->nr_local_pages--;
set_page_count(tmp, 1);
@@ -732,7 +736,7 @@
for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
struct page *page = mem_map + offset + i;
- page->zone = zone;
+ SET_PAGE_ZONE(page, zone);
if (j != ZONE_HIGHMEM)
page->virtual = __va(zone_start_paddr);
zone_start_paddr += PAGE_SIZE;
diff -ru --exclude-from=exclude linuxppc_2_4_devel_work/mm/vmscan.c linuxppc_2_4_devel_work_onezone/mm/vmscan.c
--- linuxppc_2_4_devel_work/mm/vmscan.c Sat Dec 22 11:50:21 2001
+++ linuxppc_2_4_devel_work_onezone/mm/vmscan.c Sun Jan 6 22:18:45 2002
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
return 0;
/* Don't bother replenishing zones not under pressure.. */
- if (!memclass(page->zone, classzone))
+ if (!memclass(GET_PAGE_ZONE(page), classzone))
return 0;
if (TryLockPage(page))
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@
if (unlikely(!page_count(page)))
continue;
- if (!memclass(page->zone, classzone))
+ if (!memclass(GET_PAGE_ZONE(page), classzone))
continue;
/* Racy check to avoid trylocking when not worthwhile */
-
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