Re: [MM] Make mm counters per cpu instead of atomic

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-11-05T23:45:12Z

On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 10:10:56 -0500 (EST)
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
>
> > Hmm, I don't fully understand _new_ percpu but...
> > In logical (even if not realistic), x86-32 supports up to 512 ? cpus in Kconfig.
> > BIGSMP.
>
> x86-32 only supports 32 processors. Plus per cpu areas are only allocated
> for the possible processors.
>
My number is just from Kconfig.

> > Then, if 65536 process runs, this consumes
> >
> > 65536(nr_proc) * 8 (size) * 512(cpus) = 256MBytes.
>
> With 32 possible cpus this results in 16m of per cpu space use.
>
If swap_usage is added, 24m, 25% of vmalloc area.
(But, yes, returning -ENOMEM to fork() is ok to me, 65536 proc are extreme.)

Thanks,
-Kame