From e123dd3f0ec1664576456ea1ea045591a0a95f0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yinghai Lu Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:51:06 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- mm/sparse.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c index 98d6b39c3472..458109b99e61 100644 --- a/mm/sparse.c +++ b/mm/sparse.c @@ -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