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Christoph Lameter 2244b95a7b [PATCH] zoned vm counters: basic ZVC (zoned vm counter) implementation ... Per zone counter infrastructure The counters that we currently have for the VM are split per processor. The processor however has not much to do with the zone these pages belong to. We cannot tell f.e. how many ZONE_DMA pages are dirty. So we are blind to potentially inbalances in the usage of memory in various zones. F.e. in a NUMA system we cannot tell how many pages are dirty on a particular node. If we knew then we could put measures into the VM to balance the use of memory between different zones and different nodes in a NUMA system. For example it would be possible to limit the dirty pages per node so that fast local memory is kept available even if a process is dirtying huge amounts of pages. Another example is zone reclaim. We do not know how many unmapped pages exist per zone. So we just have to try to reclaim. If it is not working then we pause and try again later. It would be better if we knew when it makes sense to reclaim unmapped pages from a zone. This patchset allows the determination of the number of unmapped pages per zone. We can remove the zone reclaim interval with the counters introduced here. Futhermore the ability to have various usage statistics available will allow the development of new NUMA balancing algorithms that may be able to improve the decision making in the scheduler of when to move a process to another node and hopefully will also enable automatic page migration through a user space program that can analyse the memory load distribution and then rebalance memory use in order to increase performance. The counter framework here implements differential counters for each processor in struct zone. The differential counters are consolidated when a threshold is exceeded (like done in the current implementation for nr_pageache), when slab reaping occurs or when a consolidation function is called. Consolidation uses atomic operations and accumulates counters per zone in the zone structure and also globally in the vm_stat array. VM functions can access the counts by simply indexing a global or zone specific array. The arrangement of counters in an array also simplifies processing when output has to be generated for /proc/*. Counters can be updated by calling inc/dec_zone_page_state or _inc/dec_zone_page_state analogous to *_page_state. The second group of functions can be called if it is known that interrupts are disabled. Special optimized increment and decrement functions are provided. These can avoid certain checks and use increment or decrement instructions that an architecture may provide. We also add a new CONFIG_DMA_IS_NORMAL that signifies that an architecture can do DMA to all memory and therefore ZONE_NORMAL will not be populated. This is only currently set for IA64 SGI SN2 and currently only affects node_page_state(). In the best case node_page_state can be reduced to retrieving a single counter for the one zone on the node. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] [akpm@osdl.org: export vm_stat[] for filesystems] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>		19 years ago
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configs	[IA64] tiger_defconfig s/NR_CPUS=4/NR_CPUS=16/	19 years ago
dig	[IA64] cleanup dig_irq_init	19 years ago
hp	[PATCH] genirq: cleanup: remove irq_descp()	19 years ago
ia32	[IA64] eliminate compile time warnings	19 years ago
kernel	[PATCH] genirq: add ->retrigger() irq op to consolidate hw_irq_resend()	19 years ago
lib	[IA64] strcpy returns NULL pointer and not destination pointer	19 years ago
mm	[PATCH] pgdat allocation and update for ia64 of memory hotplug: allocate pgdat and per node data	19 years ago
oprofile	[PATCH] remove gcc-2 checks	19 years ago
pci	[PATCH] 64bit resource: change pci core and arch code to use resource_size_t	19 years ago
scripts	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
sn	[PATCH] genirq: rename desc->handler to desc->chip	19 years ago
Kconfig	[PATCH] zoned vm counters: basic ZVC (zoned vm counter) implementation	19 years ago
Kconfig.debug	[PATCH] Move Kprobes and Oprofile to "Instrumentation Support" menu	19 years ago
Makefile	[IA64] add vmlinuz target	19 years ago
defconfig	[IA64] Increase max node count on SN platforms	19 years ago
install.sh	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
module.lds	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago