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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Questions about alloc_large_system_hash() and TLB entries
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:03:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43DDD66C.4060201@cosmosbay.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43DD2C15.1090800@cosmosbay.com>

alloc_large_system_hash() is used to allocate large hash tables at boot time.

Example on a 2 nodes NUMA machine :

Inode-cache hash table entries: 1048576 (order: 11, 8388608 bytes)
IP route cache hash table entries: 2097152 (order: 12, 16777216 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 2097152 (order: 12, 16777216 bytes)

Memory is taken from :
	bootmem if (flags & HASH_EARLY)
         __vmalloc() if (hashdist is set) (NUMA knob)
         __get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, order);


What would be the needed changes in the code to get both :

   - Allocate ram equally from all the nodes of the machine

   - Use large pages (2MB) to lower TLB stress

Thank you
Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-30  9:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-29  6:26 [PATCH] i386: Add a temporary to make put_user more type safe Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-29  6:39 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-29  6:49   ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-29  7:51     ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]       ` <200601291620.28291.ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
2006-01-29 19:33         ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-29 20:04           ` [PATCH] i386: instead of poisoning .init zone, change protection bits to force a fault Eric Dumazet
2006-01-29 20:05             ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-01-29 20:28               ` Eric Dumazet
2006-01-29 20:56               ` [PATCH, V2] " Eric Dumazet
2006-01-30  9:03                 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2006-01-30  9:22                   ` Questions about alloc_large_system_hash() and TLB entries David S. Miller
2006-01-30 10:22                     ` Eric Dumazet
2006-02-04 22:41                 ` [PATCH, V2] i386: instead of poisoning .init zone, change protection bits to force a fault Andrew Morton
2006-02-05 17:03                   ` Eric Dumazet
2006-02-05 19:42                     ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-06  8:53                       ` Eric Dumazet
2006-02-06  9:02                   ` Eric Dumazet
2006-02-06  9:28                     ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-06 10:07                       ` Eric Dumazet
2006-02-06 10:16                         ` Andrew Morton

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