mm: make mem_map allocation continuous

vmemmap allocation currently has this layout:

 [ffffe20000000000-ffffe200001fffff] PMD ->ffff810001400000 on node 0
 [ffffe20000200000-ffffe200003fffff] PMD ->ffff810001800000 on node 0
 [ffffe20000400000-ffffe200005fffff] PMD ->ffff810001c00000 on node 0
 [ffffe20000600000-ffffe200007fffff] PMD ->ffff810002000000 on node 0
 [ffffe20000800000-ffffe200009fffff] PMD ->ffff810002400000 on node 0
...

note that there is a 2M hole between them - not optimal.

the root cause is that usemap (24 bytes) will be allocated after every 2M
mem_map, and it will push next vmemmap (2M) to the next (2M) alignment.

solution: try to allocate the mem_map continously.

after the patch, we get:

 [ffffe20000000000-ffffe200001fffff] PMD ->ffff810001400000 on node 0
 [ffffe20000200000-ffffe200003fffff] PMD ->ffff810001600000 on node 0
 [ffffe20000400000-ffffe200005fffff] PMD ->ffff810001800000 on node 0
 [ffffe20000600000-ffffe200007fffff] PMD ->ffff810001a00000 on node 0
 [ffffe20000800000-ffffe200009fffff] PMD ->ffff810001c00000 on node 0
...

which is the ideal layout.

and usemap will share a page because of they are allocated continuously too:

sparse_early_usemap_alloc: usemap = ffff810024e00000 size = 24
sparse_early_usemap_alloc: usemap = ffff810024e00080 size = 24
sparse_early_usemap_alloc: usemap = ffff810024e00100 size = 24
sparse_early_usemap_alloc: usemap = ffff810024e00180 size = 24
...

so we make the bootmem allocation more compact and use less memory
for usemap => mission accomplished ;-)

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This commit is contained in:
Yinghai Lu 2008-04-13 11:51:06 -07:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 539a5fe226
commit e123dd3f0e

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@ -304,22 +304,48 @@ void __init sparse_init(void)
unsigned long pnum;
struct page *map;
unsigned long *usemap;
unsigned long **usemap_map;
int size;
/*
* map is using big page (aka 2M in x86 64 bit)
* usemap is less one page (aka 24 bytes)
* so alloc 2M (with 2M align) and 24 bytes in turn will
* make next 2M slip to one more 2M later.
* then in big system, the memory will have a lot of holes...
* here try to allocate 2M pages continously.
*
* powerpc need to call sparse_init_one_section right after each
* sparse_early_mem_map_alloc, so allocate usemap_map at first.
*/
size = sizeof(unsigned long *) * NR_MEM_SECTIONS;
usemap_map = alloc_bootmem(size);
if (!usemap_map)
panic("can not allocate usemap_map\n");
for (pnum = 0; pnum < NR_MEM_SECTIONS; pnum++) {
if (!present_section_nr(pnum))
continue;
usemap_map[pnum] = sparse_early_usemap_alloc(pnum);
}
for (pnum = 0; pnum < NR_MEM_SECTIONS; pnum++) {
if (!present_section_nr(pnum))
continue;
usemap = usemap_map[pnum];
if (!usemap)
continue;
map = sparse_early_mem_map_alloc(pnum);
if (!map)
continue;
usemap = sparse_early_usemap_alloc(pnum);
if (!usemap)
continue;
sparse_init_one_section(__nr_to_section(pnum), pnum, map,
usemap);
}
free_bootmem(__pa(usemap_map), size);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG