linux-kernel - Re: [RFC REBASED 5/5] powerpc/mm/slice: use the dynamic high slice size to limit bitmap operations

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Date:   Tue, 27 Feb 2018 14:31:07 +0530
From:   "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC REBASED 5/5] powerpc/mm/slice: use the dynamic high slice size to limit bitmap operations

Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr> writes:

> The number of high slices a process might use now depends on its
> address space size, and what allocation address it has requested.
>
> This patch uses that limit throughout call chains where possible,
> rather than use the fixed SLICE_NUM_HIGH for bitmap operations.
> This saves some cost for processes that don't use very large address
> spaces.

I haven't really looked at the final code. One of the issue we had was
with the below scenario.

mmap(addr, len) where addr < 128TB and addr+len > 128TB  We want to make
sure we build the mask such that we don't find the addr available.

-aneesh