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    [PATCH] node local per-cpu-pages · e7c8d5c9
    Christoph Lameter authored
    
    
    This patch modifies the way pagesets in struct zone are managed.
    
    Each zone has a per-cpu array of pagesets.  So any particular CPU has some
    memory in each zone structure which belongs to itself.  Even if that CPU is
    not local to that zone.
    
    So the patch relocates the pagesets for each cpu to the node that is nearest
    to the cpu instead of allocating the pagesets in the (possibly remote) target
    zone.  This means that the operations to manage pages on remote zone can be
    done with information available locally.
    
    We play a macro trick so that non-NUMA pmachines avoid the additional
    pointer chase on the page allocator fastpath.
    
    AIM7 benchmark on a 32 CPU SGI Altix
    
    w/o patches:
    Tasks    jobs/min  jti  jobs/min/task      real       cpu
        1      484.68  100       484.6769     12.01      1.97   Fri Mar 25 11:01:42 2005
      100    27140.46   89       271.4046     21.44    148.71   Fri Mar 25 11:02:04 2005
      200    30792.02   82       153.9601     37.80    296.72   Fri Mar 25 11:02:42 2005
      300    32209.27   81       107.3642     54.21    451.34   Fri Mar 25 11:03:37 2005
      400    34962.83   78        87.4071     66.59    588.97   Fri Mar 25 11:04:44 2005
      500    31676.92   75        63.3538     91.87    742.71   Fri Mar 25 11:06:16 2005
      600    36032.69   73        60.0545     96.91    885.44   Fri Mar 25 11:07:54 2005
      700    35540.43   77        50.7720    114.63   1024.28   Fri Mar 25 11:09:49 2005
      800    33906.70   74        42.3834    137.32   1181.65   Fri Mar 25 11:12:06 2005
      900    34120.67   73        37.9119    153.51   1325.26   Fri Mar 25 11:14:41 2005
     1000    34802.37   74        34.8024    167.23   1465.26   Fri Mar 25 11:17:28 2005
    
    with slab API changes and pageset patch:
    
    Tasks    jobs/min  jti  jobs/min/task      real       cpu
        1      485.00  100       485.0000     12.00      1.96   Fri Mar 25 11:46:18 2005
      100    28000.96   89       280.0096     20.79    150.45   Fri Mar 25 11:46:39 2005
      200    32285.80   79       161.4290     36.05    293.37   Fri Mar 25 11:47:16 2005
      300    40424.15   84       134.7472     43.19    438.42   Fri Mar 25 11:47:59 2005
      400    39155.01   79        97.8875     59.46    590.05   Fri Mar 25 11:48:59 2005
      500    37881.25   82        75.7625     76.82    730.19   Fri Mar 25 11:50:16 2005
      600    39083.14   78        65.1386     89.35    872.79   Fri Mar 25 11:51:46 2005
      700    38627.83   77        55.1826    105.47   1022.46   Fri Mar 25 11:53:32 2005
      800    39631.94   78        49.5399    117.48   1169.94   Fri Mar 25 11:55:30 2005
      900    36903.70   79        41.0041    141.94   1310.78   Fri Mar 25 11:57:53 2005
     1000    36201.23   77        36.2012    160.77   1458.31   Fri Mar 25 12:00:34 2005
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarShobhit Dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarShai Fultheim <Shai@Scalex86.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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