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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711121615120.29328@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:42:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Subject: Re: x86_64: Make sparsemem/vmemmap the default memory model
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 November 2007 00:52:14 Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > Use sparsemem as the only memory model for UP, SMP and NUMA.
> >
> > Measurements indicate that DISCONTIGMEM has a higher
> > overhead than sparsemem. And FLATMEMs benefits are minimal. So I think its
> > best to simply standardize on sparsemem.
>
> How about the memory overhead? Is it the same too?
> And code size vs flatmem?
SMP Sparsemem
-------------
Kernel size:
text data bss dec hex filename
3849268 397739 1264856 5511863 541ab7 vmlinux
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8242252 41164 8201088 0 352 11512
-/+ buffers/cache: 29300 8212952
Swap: 9775512 0 9775512
SMP Flatmem
-----------
Kernel size:
text data bss dec hex filename
3844612 397739 1264536 5506887 540747 vmlinux
So 4.5k growth in text size vs. FLATMEM.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8244052 40544 8203508 0 352 11484
-/+ buffers/cache: 28708 8215344
2k growth in overall memory use after boot.
NUMA discontig:
text data bss dec hex filename
3888124 470659 1276504 5635287 55fcd7 vmlinux
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8256256 56908 8199348 0 352 11496
-/+ buffers/cache: 45060 8211196
Swap: 9775512 0 9775512
NUMA sparse:
text data bss dec hex filename
3896428 470659 1276824 5643911 561e87 vmlinux
8k text growth. Given that we fully inline virt_to_page and friends now
that is rather good.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8264720 57240 8207480 0 352 11516
-/+ buffers/cache: 45372 8219348
Swap: 9775512 0 9775512
Hmmm... More memory free? How did that happen? More pages cached for some
reason. The total available memory is increased by 8k.
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