netdev - Re: [PATCH 12/30] mm: memory reserve management

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Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:13:43 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, trond.myklebust@....uio.no,
	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, cl@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/30] mm: memory reserve management

On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 11:49 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 13:06 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > We're trying to get rid of kfree() so I'd __kfree_reserve() could to
> > mm/sl?b.c. Matt, thoughts?
> 
> I think you mean ksize there. My big issue is that we need to make it
> clear that ksize pairs -only- with kmalloc and that
> ksize(kmem_cache_alloc(...)) is a categorical error. Preferably, we do
> this by giving it a distinct name, like kmalloc_size(). We can stick an
> underbar in front of it to suggest you ought not be using it too.

Right, both make sense, so _kmalloc_size() has my vote.

> > > +	/*
> > > +	 * ksize gives the full allocated size vs the requested size we
> > used to
> > > +	 * charge; however since we round up to the nearest power of two,
> > this
> > > +	 * should all work nicely.
> > > +	 */
> 
> SLOB doesn't do this, of course. But does that matter? I think you want
> to charge the actual allocation size to the reserve in all cases, no?
> That probably means calling ksize() on both alloc and free.

Like said, I still need to do all the SLOB reservation stuff. That
includes coming up with upper bound fragmentation loss.

For SL[UA]B I use roundup_power_of_two for kmalloc sizes. Thus with the
above ksize(), if we did p=kmalloc(x), then we'd account
roundup_power_of_two(x), and that should be equal to
roundup_power_of_two(ksize(p)), as ksize will always be smaller or equal
to the roundup.

I'm guessing the power of two upper bound is good for SLOB too -
although I haven't tried proving it wrong or tighetening it.

Only the kmem_cache_* reservation stuff would need some extra attention
with SLOB.

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