linux-kernel - [PATCH] slab: NUMA kmem

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Date:	Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:34:36 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	akpm@...l.org
CC:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, apw@...dowen.org, hch@....de,
	manfred@...orfullife.com, christoph@...eter.com, pj@....com
Subject: [PATCH] slab: NUMA kmem_cache diet

Some NUMA machines have a big MAX_NUMNODES (possibly 1024), but fewer possible 
nodes. This patch dynamically sizes the 'struct kmem_cache' to allocate only 
needed space.

I moved nodelists[] field at the end of struct kmem_cache, and use the 
following computation in kmem_cache_init()

cache_cache.buffer_size = offsetof(struct kmem_cache, nodelists) +
                                 nr_node_ids * sizeof(struct kmem_list3 *);


On my two nodes x86_64 machine, kmem_cache.obj_size is now 192 instead of 704
(This is because on x86_64, MAX_NUMNODES is 64)

On bigger NUMA setups, this might reduce the gfporder of "cache_cache"

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>


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