Re: 2.5.52-mjb1 (scalability / NUMA patchset)

From: William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Date: Tue Dec 17 2002 - 12:49:58 EST


On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:10:29AM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> The patchset contains mainly scalability and NUMA stuff, and
> anything else that stops things from irritating me. It's meant
> to be pretty stable, not so much a testing ground for new stuff.
> I'd be very interested in feedback from other people running
> large SMP or NUMA boxes.
> http://www.aracnet.com/~fletch/linux/2.5.52/patch-2.5.52-mjb1.bz2

pfn_to_nid() got lots of icache misses. Try using a macro.

 arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c | 1 -
 arch/i386/kernel/numaq.c | 15 ++-------------
 include/asm-i386/numaq.h | 3 ++-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff -urpN linux-2.5.52-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c mm1-2.5.52-1/arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c
--- linux-2.5.52-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c 2002-12-16 19:29:45.000000000 -0800
+++ mm1-2.5.52-1/arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c 2002-12-17 08:47:25.000000000 -0800
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(EISA_bus);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(MCA_bus);
 #ifdef CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(node_data);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(pfn_to_nid);
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_NUMAQ
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(xquad_portio);
diff -urpN linux-2.5.52-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/numaq.c mm1-2.5.52-1/arch/i386/kernel/numaq.c
--- linux-2.5.52-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/numaq.c 2002-12-15 18:08:13.000000000 -0800
+++ mm1-2.5.52-1/arch/i386/kernel/numaq.c 2002-12-17 08:51:44.000000000 -0800
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/bootmem.h>
 #include <linux/mmzone.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
 #include <asm/numaq.h>
 
 /* These are needed before the pgdat's are created */
@@ -82,19 +83,7 @@ static void __init smp_dump_qct(void)
  * physnode_map[8- ] = -1;
  */
 int physnode_map[MAX_ELEMENTS] = { [0 ... (MAX_ELEMENTS - 1)] = -1};
-
-#define PFN_TO_ELEMENT(pfn) (pfn / PAGES_PER_ELEMENT)
-#define PA_TO_ELEMENT(pa) (PFN_TO_ELEMENT(pa >> PAGE_SHIFT))
-
-int pfn_to_nid(unsigned long pfn)
-{
- int nid = physnode_map[PFN_TO_ELEMENT(pfn)];
-
- if (nid == -1)
- BUG(); /* address is not present */
-
- return nid;
-}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(physnode_map);
 
 /*
  * for each node mark the regions
diff -urpN linux-2.5.52-mm1/include/asm-i386/numaq.h mm1-2.5.52-1/include/asm-i386/numaq.h
--- linux-2.5.52-mm1/include/asm-i386/numaq.h 2002-12-15 18:08:09.000000000 -0800
+++ mm1-2.5.52-1/include/asm-i386/numaq.h 2002-12-17 08:45:19.000000000 -0800
@@ -38,10 +38,11 @@
 #define MAX_ELEMENTS 256
 #define PAGES_PER_ELEMENT (16777216/256)
 
+extern int physnode_map[];
+#define pfn_to_nid(pfn) ({ physnode_map[(pfn) / PAGES_PER_ELEMENT]; })
 #define pfn_to_pgdat(pfn) NODE_DATA(pfn_to_nid(pfn))
 #define PHYSADDR_TO_NID(pa) pfn_to_nid(pa >> PAGE_SHIFT)
 #define MAX_NUMNODES 8
-extern int pfn_to_nid(unsigned long);
 extern void get_memcfg_numaq(void);
 #define get_memcfg_numa() get_memcfg_numaq()
 
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