Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 May 2012 04:25:23 -0400 | From | KOSAKI Motohiro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 13/35] autonuma: add page structure fields |
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(5/29/12 10:54 AM), Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 09:56 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: >> On 05/29/2012 09:16 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >>> On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 19:02 +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: >> >>> 24 bytes per page.. or ~0.6% of memory gone. This is far too great a >>> price to pay. >>> >>> At LSF/MM Rik already suggested you limit the number of pages that can >>> be migrated concurrently and use this to move the extra list_head out of >>> struct page and into a smaller amount of extra structures, reducing the >>> total overhead. >> >> For THP, we should be able to track this NUMA info on a >> 2MB page granularity. > > Yeah, but that's another x86-only feature, _IF_ we're going to do this > it must be done for all archs that have CONFIG_NUMA, thus we're stuck > with 4k (or other base page size).
Even if THP=n, we don't need 4k granularity. All modern malloc implementation have per-thread heap (e.g. glibc call it as arena) and it is usually 1-8MB size. So, if it is larger than 2MB, we can always use per-pmd tracking. iow, memory consumption reduce to 1/512.
My suggestion is, track per-pmd (i.e. 2M size) granularity and fix glibc too (current glibc malloc has dynamically arena size adjusting feature and then it often become less than 2M).
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