linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/20] Convert gfp_zone() to use a table of precalculated value

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Date:	Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:20:40 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Cc:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>,
	Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/20] Convert gfp_zone() to use a table of
 precalculated value

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:59:34 +1100
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> wrote:

> On Tuesday 24 February 2009 12:32:26 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:40:47 +0000
> >
> > Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:43:20AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > > > > Are you sure that this is a benefit? Jumps are forward and pretty
> > > > > > short and the compiler is optimizing a branch away in the current
> > > > > > code.
> > > > >
> > > > > Pretty easy to mispredict there, though, especially as you can tend
> > > > > to get allocations interleaved between kernel and movable (or simply
> > > > > if the branch predictor is cold there are a lot of branches on
> > > > > x86-64).
> > > > >
> > > > > I would be interested to know if there is a measured improvement.
> > >
> > > Not in kernbench at least, but that is no surprise. It's a small
> > > percentage of the overall cost. It'll appear in the noise for anything
> > > other than micro-benchmarks.
> > >
> > > > > It
> > > > > adds an extra dcache line to the footprint, but OTOH the instructions
> > > > > you quote is more than one icache line, and presumably Mel's code
> > > > > will be a lot shorter.
> > >
> > > Yes, it's an index lookup of a shared read-only cache line versus a lot
> > > of code with branches to mispredict. I wasn't happy with the cache line
> > > consumption but it was the first obvious alternative.
> > >
> > > > Maybe we can come up with a version of gfp_zone that has no branches
> > > > and no lookup?
> > >
> > > Ideally, yes, but I didn't spot any obvious way of figuring it out at
> > > compile time then or now. Suggestions?
> >
> > Assume
> >   ZONE_DMA=0
> >   ZONE_DMA32=1
> >   ZONE_NORMAL=2
> >   ZONE_HIGHMEM=3
> >   ZONE_MOVABLE=4
> >
> > #define __GFP_DMA       ((__force gfp_t)0x01u)
> > #define __GFP_DMA32     ((__force gfp_t)0x02u)
> > #define __GFP_HIGHMEM   ((__force gfp_t)0x04u)
> > #define __GFP_MOVABLE   ((__force gfp_t)0x08u)
> >
> > #define GFP_MAGIC (0400030102) ) #depends on config.
> >
> > gfp_zone(mask) = ((GFP_MAGIC >> ((mask & 0xf)*3) & 0x7)
> 
> Clever!
> 
> But I wonder if it is even valid to perform bitwise operations on
> the zone bits of the gfp mask? Hmm, I see a few places doing it,
> but if we stamped that out, we could just have a simple zone mask
> that takes the zone idx out of the gfp, which would be slightly
> simpler again and more extendible.
> 
IIRC, __GFP_MOVALE works as flag.

And, one troube is that there is no __GFP_NORMAL flag.

I wrote follwoing in old days(before ZONE_MOVABLE). Assume ZONE_NORMAL=2.

//trasnslate gfp_mask to zone_idx.
#define __GFP_DMA	(2)
#define __GFP_DMA32	(3)
#define __GFP_HIGHMEM	(1)
#define __GFP_MOVABLE	(6)

gfp_zone(mask)	= (mask & 0x7) ^ 0x2 //ZONE_NORMAL=2)

But, this doesn't work. ZONE_NORMAL can be 0,1,2. 
(and ppc doesn't have ZONE_NORMAL)


Thanks,
-Kame

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