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From: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com,
	Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>, Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>,
	Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/19] list_lru: per-node list infrastructure
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:21:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50F6FDC8.5020909@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1354058086-27937-10-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>

On 11/27/2012 03:14 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> 
> Now that we have an LRU list API, we can start to enhance the
> implementation.  This splits the single LRU list into per-node lists
> and locks to enhance scalability. Items are placed on lists
> according to the node the memory belongs to. To make scanning the
> lists efficient, also track whether the per-node lists have entries
> in them in a active nodemask.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/list_lru.h |   14 ++--
>  lib/list_lru.c           |  160 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  2 files changed, 129 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/list_lru.h b/include/linux/list_lru.h
> index 3423949..b0e3ba2 100644
> --- a/include/linux/list_lru.h
> +++ b/include/linux/list_lru.h
> @@ -8,21 +8,23 @@
>  #define _LRU_LIST_H 0
>  
>  #include <linux/list.h>
> +#include <linux/nodemask.h>
>  
> -struct list_lru {
> +struct list_lru_node {
>  	spinlock_t		lock;
>  	struct list_head	list;
>  	long			nr_items;
> +} ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
> +
> +struct list_lru {
> +	struct list_lru_node	node[MAX_NUMNODES];
> +	nodemask_t		active_nodes;
>  };
>  
MAX_NUMNODES will default to 1 << 9, if I'm not mistaken. Your
list_lru_node seems to be around 32 bytes on 64-bit systems (128 with
debug). So we're talking about 16k per lru.
The superblocks only, are present by the dozens even in a small system,
and I believe the whole goal of this API is to get more users to switch
to it. This can easily use up a respectable bunch of megs.

Isn't it a bit too much ?

I am wondering if we can't do better in here and at least allocate+grow
according to the actual number of nodes.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-16 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-27 23:14 [RFC, PATCH 00/19] Numa aware LRU lists and shrinkers Dave Chinner
2012-11-27 23:14 ` [PATCH 01/19] dcache: convert dentry_stat.nr_unused to per-cpu counters Dave Chinner
2012-11-27 23:14 ` [PATCH 02/19] dentry: move to per-sb LRU locks Dave Chinner
2012-11-27 23:14 ` [PATCH 03/19] dcache: remove dentries from LRU before putting on dispose list Dave Chinner
2012-11-27 23:14 ` [PATCH 04/19] mm: new shrinker API Dave Chinner
2012-11-27 23:14 ` [PATCH 05/19] shrinker: convert superblock shrinkers to new API Dave Chinner
2012-12-20 11:06   ` Glauber Costa
2012-12-21  1:46     ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-21 10:17       ` Glauber Costa
2012-11-27 23:14 ` [PATCH 06/19] list: add a new LRU list type Dave Chinner
2012-11-28 16:10   ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-11-27 23:14 ` [PATCH 07/19] inode: convert inode lru list to generic lru list code Dave Chinner
2012-11-27 23:14 ` [PATCH 08/19] dcache: convert to use new lru list infrastructure Dave Chinner
2012-11-27 23:14 ` [PATCH 09/19] list_lru: per-node " Dave Chinner
2012-12-20 11:21   ` Glauber Costa
2012-12-21  1:54     ` Dave Chinner
2013-01-16 19:21   ` Glauber Costa [this message]
2013-01-16 22:55     ` Dave Chinner
2013-01-17  0:35       ` Glauber Costa
2013-01-17  4:22         ` Dave Chinner
2013-01-17 18:21           ` Glauber Costa
2013-01-18  0:10             ` Dave Chinner
2013-01-18  0:14               ` Glauber Costa
2013-01-18  8:11                 ` Dave Chinner
2013-01-18 19:10                   ` Glauber Costa
2013-01-19  0:10                     ` Dave Chinner
2013-01-19  0:13                       ` Glauber Costa
2013-01-18  0:51               ` Glauber Costa
2013-01-18  8:08                 ` Dave Chinner
2013-01-18 19:01                   ` Glauber Costa
2012-11-27 23:14 ` [PATCH 10/19] shrinker: add node awareness Dave Chinner
2012-11-27 23:14 ` [PATCH 11/19] fs: convert inode and dentry shrinking to be node aware Dave Chinner
2012-11-27 23:14 ` [PATCH 12/19] xfs: convert buftarg LRU to generic code Dave Chinner
2012-11-27 23:14 ` [PATCH 13/19] xfs: Node aware direct inode reclaim Dave Chinner
2012-11-27 23:14 ` [PATCH 14/19] xfs: use generic AG walk for background " Dave Chinner
2012-11-27 23:14 ` [PATCH 15/19] xfs: convert dquot cache lru to list_lru Dave Chinner
2012-11-28 16:17   ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-11-27 23:14 ` [PATCH 16/19] fs: convert fs shrinkers to new scan/count API Dave Chinner
2012-11-27 23:14 ` [PATCH 17/19] drivers: convert shrinkers to new count/scan API Dave Chinner
2012-11-28  1:13   ` Chris Wilson
2012-11-28  3:17     ` Dave Chinner
2012-11-28  8:21       ` Glauber Costa
2012-11-28 21:28         ` Dave Chinner
2012-11-29 10:29           ` Glauber Costa
2012-11-29 22:02             ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-07 13:37   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-11-27 23:14 ` [PATCH 18/19] shrinker: convert remaining shrinkers to " Dave Chinner
2012-11-27 23:14 ` [PATCH 19/19] shrinker: Kill old ->shrink API Dave Chinner
2012-11-29 19:02 ` [RFC, PATCH 00/19] Numa aware LRU lists and shrinkers Andi Kleen
2012-11-29 22:09   ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-20 11:45 ` Glauber Costa
2012-12-21  2:50   ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-21 10:41     ` Glauber Costa
2013-01-21 16:08 ` Glauber Costa
2013-01-21 23:21   ` Dave Chinner
2013-01-23 14:36     ` Glauber Costa
2013-01-23 23:46       ` Dave Chinner

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