From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e7.ny.us.ibm.com (e7.ny.us.ibm.com [32.97.182.137]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9B6241A0020 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 05:02:12 +1000 (EST) Received: from /spool/local by e7.ny.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 15:02:10 -0400 Received: from b01cxnp23033.gho.pok.ibm.com (b01cxnp23033.gho.pok.ibm.com [9.57.198.28]) by d01dlp03.pok.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F5F0C90084 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 15:01:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (d01av01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.215]) by b01cxnp23033.gho.pok.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id s89J27hp59572400 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 19:02:07 GMT Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d01av01.pok.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id s89J23IR019919 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 15:02:07 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 12:01:54 -0700 From: Nishanth Aravamudan To: Andrew Morton Subject: [PATCH 0/3] Improve slab consumption with memoryless nodes Message-ID: <20140909190154.GC22906@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Han Pingtian , Matt Mackall , David Rientjes , Pekka Enberg , Linux Memory Management List , Paul Mackerras , Tejun Heo , Joonsoo Kim , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Christoph Lameter , Wanpeng Li , Anton Blanchard List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Anton noticed (http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg67489.html) that on ppc LPARs with memoryless nodes, a large amount of memory was consumed by slabs and was marked unreclaimable. He tracked it down to slab deactivations in the SLUB core when we allocate remotely, leading to poor efficiency always when memoryless nodes are present. After much discussion, Joonsoo provided a few patches that help significantly. They don't resolve the problem altogether: - memory hotplug still needs testing, that is when a memoryless node becomes memory-ful, we want to dtrt - there are other reasons for going off-node than memoryless nodes, e.g., fully exhausted local nodes Neither case is resolved with this series, but I don't think that should block their acceptance, as they can be explored/resolved with follow-on patches. The series consists of: [1/3] topology: add support for node_to_mem_node() to determine the fallback node [2/3] slub: fallback to node_to_mem_node() node if allocating on memoryless node - Joonsoo's patches to cache the nearest node with memory for each NUMA node [3/3] Partial revert of 81c98869faa5 (""kthread: ensure locality of task_struct allocations") - At Tejun's request, keep the knowledge of memoryless node fallback to the allocator core. include/linux/topology.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++ kernel/kthread.c | 2 +- mm/page_alloc.c | 1 + mm/slub.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------ 4 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)