Re: [Patch V3 05/37] x86, PCI, ACPI: use kmalloc_node() to optimize for performance

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Tue May 27 2014 - 09:50:59 EST


On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:07 AM, Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Use kmalloc_node() instead of kmalloc() when possible to optimize
> for performance on NUMA platforms.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>

I think this is micro-optimization, because I don't think these
structures are referenced often. It might be nicer if we could
arrange to run this path on the local node, as we do in
pci_call_probe(), so all allocs would happen there. But I'm OK with
this as-is.

> ---
> arch/x86/pci/acpi.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/pci/acpi.c b/arch/x86/pci/acpi.c
> index 01edac6c5e18..91bef49df228 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/pci/acpi.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/pci/acpi.c
> @@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ static void probe_pci_root_info(struct pci_root_info *info,
> return;
>
> size = sizeof(*info->res) * info->res_num;
> - info->res = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> + info->res = kzalloc_node(size, GFP_KERNEL, info->sd.node);
> if (!info->res) {
> info->res_num = 0;
> return;
> @@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ static void probe_pci_root_info(struct pci_root_info *info,
>
> size = sizeof(*info->res_offset) * info->res_num;
> info->res_num = 0;
> - info->res_offset = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> + info->res_offset = kzalloc_node(size, GFP_KERNEL, info->sd.node);
> if (!info->res_offset) {
> kfree(info->res);
> info->res = NULL;
> @@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ struct pci_bus *pci_acpi_scan_root(struct acpi_pci_root *root)
> if (node != NUMA_NO_NODE && !node_online(node))
> node = NUMA_NO_NODE;
>
> - info = kzalloc(sizeof(*info), GFP_KERNEL);
> + info = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*info), GFP_KERNEL, node);
> if (!info) {
> printk(KERN_WARNING "pci_bus %04x:%02x: "
> "ignored (out of memory)\n", domain, busnum);
> --
> 1.7.10.4
>
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