Re: [PATCH] [2/18] Add basic support for more than one hstate inhugetlbfs

From: Adam Litke
Date: Mon Mar 17 2008 - 16:21:19 EST



On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 02:58 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> - Convert hstates to an array
> - Add a first default entry covering the standard huge page size
> - Add functions for architectures to register new hstates
> - Add basic iterators over hstates
>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
>
> ---
<snip>
> @@ -497,11 +501,34 @@ static int __init hugetlb_init(void)
> break;
> }
> max_huge_pages = h->free_huge_pages = h->nr_huge_pages = i;
> - printk("Total HugeTLB memory allocated, %ld\n", h->free_huge_pages);
> +
> + printk(KERN_INFO "Total HugeTLB memory allocated, %ld %dMB pages\n",
> + h->free_huge_pages,
> + 1 << (h->order + PAGE_SHIFT - 20));
> return 0;
> }

I'd like to avoid assuming the huge page size is some multiple of MB.
PowerPC will have a 64KB huge page. Granted, you do fix this in a later
patch, so as long as the whole series goes together this shouldn't cause
a problem.

> +
> +static int __init hugetlb_init(void)
> +{
> + if (HPAGE_SHIFT == 0)
> + return 0;
> + return hugetlb_init_hstate(&global_hstate);
> +}
> module_init(hugetlb_init);
>
> +/* Should be called on processing a hugepagesz=... option */
> +void __init huge_add_hstate(unsigned order)
> +{
> + struct hstate *h;
> + BUG_ON(max_hstate >= HUGE_MAX_HSTATE);
> + BUG_ON(order <= HPAGE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT);
> + h = &hstates[max_hstate++];
> + h->order = order;
> + h->mask = ~((1ULL << (order + PAGE_SHIFT)) - 1);
> + hugetlb_init_hstate(h);
> + parsed_hstate = h;
> +}

Since mask can always be derived from order, is there a reason we don't
always calculate it? I guess it boils down to storage cost vs.
calculation cost and I don't feel too strongly either way.

--
Adam Litke - (agl at us.ibm.com)
IBM Linux Technology Center

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