linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] SLAB : NUMA cache_free_alien() very expensive because of virt_to

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Date:	Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:09:01 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
CC:	Christoph Lameter <christoph@...eter.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] SLAB : NUMA cache_free_alien() very expensive because of
 virt_to_slab(objp); nodeid = slabp->nodeid;

Andi Kleen a écrit :
>>> Is it possible virt_to_slab(objp)->nodeid being different from pfn_to_nid(objp) ?
>> It is possible the page allocator falls back to another node than 
>> requested. We would need to check that this never occurs.
> 
> The only way to ensure that would be to set a strict mempolicy.
> But I'm not sure that's a good idea -- after all you don't want
> to fail an allocation in this case.
> 
> But pfn_to_nid on the object like proposed by Eric should work anyways.
> But I'm not sure the tables used for that will be more often cache hot
> than the slab.

pfn_to_nid() on most x86_64 machines access one cache line (struct memnode).

Node 0 MemBase 0000000000000000 Limit 0000000280000000
Node 1 MemBase 0000000280000000 Limit 0000000480000000
NUMA: Using 31 for the hash shift.

On this example, we use only 8 bytes of memnode.embedded_map[] to find nid of 
all 16 GB of ram. On profiles I have, memnode is always hot (no cache miss on it).

While virt_to_slab() has to access :

1) struct page -> page_get_slab() (page->lru.prev) (one cache miss)
2) struct slab -> nodeid (one other cache miss)


So using pfn_to_nid() would avoid 2 cache misses.

I understand we want to do special things (fallback and such tricks) at 
allocation time, but I believe that we can just trust the real nid of memory 
at free time.


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