Re: [PATCH] x86-32: Allocate irq stacks seperate from percpu area

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Wed Oct 27 2010 - 12:08:00 EST


Le mercredi 27 octobre 2010 Ã 17:35 +0200, Tejun Heo a Ãcrit :

> Hmmm, okay. Can you please print out early_cpu_to_node() output for
> each cpu from arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c::setup_per_cpu_areas()?
> BTW, some clarifications.
>
> * In the pcpu-alloc debug message, the n of [n] might not necessarily
> match the NUMA node.
>
> * I was confused before. If CPU distance reported by
> early_cpu_to_node() is greater than LOCAL_DISTANCE (ie. NUMA
> configuration), cpus will always belong to different [n]. What gets
> adjusted is the size of each unit.
>
> * No matter what, here, the end result is correct. As there's no low
> memory on node 1, it doesn't matter how the groups are organized in
> the first chunk as long as embedding is used. And for other chunks,
> pages for each cpu are allocated separatedly w/ cpu_to_node() anyway
> so NUMA affinity will be correct, again, regardless of the group
> organization.
>
> Thanks.
>

Will do in a few moment, once I recover from frozen machine :(
(See end of this mail)

Thanks !

By the way, booting with hashdist=1 to make alloc_large_system_hash()
use vmalloc() show that only pages from node 0 were used at boot.

# grep alloc_large /proc/vmallocinfo
0xf7a01000-0xf7a82000 528384 alloc_large_system_hash+0x144/0x1d9 pages=128 vmalloc N0=128
0xf7a83000-0xf7ac4000 266240 alloc_large_system_hash+0x144/0x1d9 pages=64 vmalloc N0=64
0xf7b11000-0xf7b32000 135168 alloc_large_system_hash+0x144/0x1d9 pages=32 vmalloc N0=32
0xf7b33000-0xf7c34000 1052672 alloc_large_system_hash+0x144/0x1d9 pages=256 vmalloc N0=256
0xf7c39000-0xf7cba000 528384 alloc_large_system_hash+0x144/0x1d9 pages=128 vmalloc N0=128
0xf7cbb000-0xf7cc0000 20480 alloc_large_system_hash+0x144/0x1d9 pages=4 vmalloc N0=4
0xf7cc1000-0xf7cc6000 20480 alloc_large_system_hash+0x144/0x1d9 pages=4 vmalloc N0=4


So I tried following experiment :

# swapoff
# numactl --membind=0 swapon -a
# grep swap /proc/vmallocinfo
0xf9bf3000-0xf9cf4000 1052672 sys_swapon+0x4aa/0xb24 pages=256 vmalloc N0=256
# swapoff -a
# numactl --membind=1 swapon -a

<<FREEZE>>


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