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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] slub: Simplify boot kmem_cache_cpu allocations
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:49:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C19E19D.2020802@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1006161231420.6361@router.home>

Hello,

On 06/16/2010 07:35 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>> It's primarily controlled by PERCPU_DYNAMIC_RESERVE.  I don't think
>> there will be any systematic way to do it other than sizing it
>> sufficiently.  Can you calculate the upper bound?  The constant has
>> been used primarily for optimization so how it's used needs to be
>> audited if we wanna guarantee free space in the first chunk but I
>> don't think it would be too difficult.
> 
> The upper bound is SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT * sizeof(struct kmem_cache_cpu).
> 
> Thats usually 14 * 104 bytes = 1456 bytes. This may increase to more
> than 8k given the future plans to add queues into kmem_cache_cpu.

Alright, will work on that.  Does slab allocator guarantee to return
NULL if called before initialized or is it undefined?  If latter, is
there a way to determine whether slab is initialized yet?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-17  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-15 19:07 slub: remove dynamic dma slab allocation Christoph Lameter
2010-06-15 19:11 ` [RFC] slub: Simplify boot kmem_cache_cpu allocations Christoph Lameter
2010-06-16  8:53   ` Tejun Heo
2010-06-16 16:33     ` Christoph Lameter
2010-06-16 17:18       ` Tejun Heo
2010-06-16 17:35         ` Christoph Lameter
2010-06-17  8:49           ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2010-06-17  9:01             ` Pekka Enberg
2010-06-17 13:43             ` Christoph Lameter
2010-06-18 16:58               ` [PATCH 1/2] percpu: make @dyn_size always mean min dyn_size in first chunk init functions Tejun Heo
2010-06-18 17:29                 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-06-18 17:31                 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-06-18 17:39                   ` Tejun Heo
2010-06-18 18:03                     ` Christoph Lameter
2010-06-19  8:23                       ` Tejun Heo
2010-06-18 16:58               ` [PATCH 2/2] percpu: allow limited allocation before slab is online Tejun Heo
2010-06-18 22:30 ` slub: remove dynamic dma slab allocation David Rientjes
2010-06-21 14:25   ` Christoph Lameter
2010-06-21 19:56     ` David Rientjes
2010-06-21 20:32       ` Christoph Lameter
2010-06-21 21:08         ` David Rientjes

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