From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 19F358D0039 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 04:35:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:35:19 +0100 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] page_cgroup: Reduce allocation overhead for page_cgroup array for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM Message-ID: <20110224093519.GB20922@tiehlicka.suse.cz> References: <20110223151047.GA7275@tiehlicka.suse.cz> <1298485162.7236.4.camel@nimitz> <20110224085227.1a3e185b.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110224085227.1a3e185b.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Dave Hansen , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu 24-02-11 08:52:27, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:19:22 -0800 > Dave Hansen wrote: > > > On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 16:10 +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > We can reduce this internal fragmentation by splitting the single > > > page_cgroup array into more arrays where each one is well kmalloc > > > aligned. This patch implements this idea. > > > > How about using alloc_pages_exact()? These things aren't allocated > > often enough to really get most of the benefits of being in a slab. > > That'll at least get you down to a maximum of about PAGE_SIZE wasted. > > > > yes, alloc_pages_exact() is much better. > > packing page_cgroups for multiple sections causes breakage in memory hotplug logic. I am not sure I understand this. What do you mean by packing page_cgroups for multiple sections? The patch I have posted doesn't do any packing. Or do you mean that using a double array can break hotplog? Not that this would change anything, alloc_pages_exact is really a better solution, I am just curious ;) -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs SUSE LINUX s.r.o. Lihovarska 1060/12 190 00 Praha 9 Czech Republic -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org