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Dynamic huge page pool resizing. In most real-world scenarios, configuring the size of the hugetlb pool correctly is a difficult task. If too few pages are allocated to the pool, applications using MAP_SHARED may fail to mmap() a hugepage region and applications using MAP_PRIVATE may receive SIGBUS. Isolating too much memory in the hugetlb pool means it is not available for other uses, especially those programs not using huge pages. The obvious answer is to let the hugetlb pool grow and shrink in response to the runtime demand for huge pages. The work Mel Gorman has been doing to establish a memory zone for movable memory allocations makes dynamically resizing the hugetlb pool reliable within the limits of that zone. This patch series implements dynamic pool resizing for private and shared mappings while being careful to maintain existing semantics. Please reply with your comments and feedback; even just to say whether it would be a useful feature to you. Thanks. How it works ============ Upon depletion of the hugetlb pool, rather than reporting an error immediately, first try and allocate the needed huge pages directly from the buddy allocator. Care must be taken to avoid unbounded growth of the hugetlb pool, so the hugetlb filesystem quota is used to limit overall pool size. The real work begins when we decide there is a shortage of huge pages. What happens next depends on whether the pages are for a private or shared mapping. Private mappings are straightforward. At fault time, if alloc_huge_page() fails, we allocate a page from the buddy allocator and increment the source node's surplus_huge_pages counter. When free_huge_page() is called for a page on a node with a surplus, the page is freed directly to the buddy allocator instead of the hugetlb pool. Because shared mappings require all of the pages to be reserved up front, some additional work must be done at mmap() to support them. We determine the reservation shortage and allocate the required number of pages all at once. These pages are then added to the hugetlb pool and marked reserved. Where that is not possible the mmap() will fail. As with private mappings, the appropriate surplus counters are updated. Since reserved huge pages won't necessarily be used by the process, we can't be sure that free_huge_page() will always be called to return surplus pages to the buddy allocator. To prevent the huge page pool from bloating, we must free unused surplus pages when their reservation has ended. Controlling it ============== With the entire patch series applied, pool resizing is off by default so unless specific action is taken, the semantics are unchanged. To take advantage of the flexibility afforded by this patch series one must tolerate a change in semantics. To control hugetlb pool growth, the following techniques can be employed: * A sysctl tunable to enable/disable the feature entirely * The size= mount option for hugetlbfs filesystems to limit pool size Performance =========== When contiguous memory is readily available, it is expected that the cost of dynamicly resizing the pool will be small. This series has been performance tested with 'stream' to measure this cost. Stream (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/) was linked with libhugetlbfs to enable remapping of the text and data/bss segments into huge pages. Stream with small array ----------------------- Baseline: nr_hugepages = 0, No libhugetlbfs segment remapping Preallocated: nr_hugepages = 5, Text and data/bss remapping Dynamic: nr_hugepages = 0, Text and data/bss remapping Rate (MB/s) Function Baseline Preallocated Dynamic Copy: 4695.6266 5942.8371 5982.2287 Scale: 4451.5776 5017.1419 5658.7843 Add: 5815.8849 7927.7827 8119.3552 Triad: 5949.4144 8527.6492 8110.6903 Stream with large array ----------------------- Baseline: nr_hugepages = 0, No libhugetlbfs segment remapping Preallocated: nr_hugepages = 67, Text and data/bss remapping Dynamic: nr_hugepages = 0, Text and data/bss remapping Rate (MB/s) Function Baseline Preallocated Dynamic Copy: 2227.8281 2544.2732 2546.4947 Scale: 2136.3208 2430.7294 2421.2074 Add: 2773.1449 4004.0021 3999.4331 Triad: 2748.4502 3777.0109 3773.4970 * All numbers are averages taken from 10 consecutive runs with a maximum standard deviation of 1.3 percent noted. This patch: Simply move update_and_free_page() so that it can be reused later in this patch series. The implementation is not changed. Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Acked-by: Dave McCracken <dave.mccracken@oracle.com> Acked-by: William Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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| allocpercpu.c | ||
| backing-dev.c | ||
| bootmem.c | ||
| bounce.c | ||
| fadvise.c | ||
| filemap_xip.c | ||
| filemap.c | ||
| fremap.c | ||
| highmem.c | ||
| hugetlb.c | ||
| internal.h | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| madvise.c | ||
| Makefile | ||
| memory_hotplug.c | ||
| memory.c | ||
| mempolicy.c | ||
| mempool.c | ||
| migrate.c | ||
| mincore.c | ||
| mlock.c | ||
| mmap.c | ||
| mmzone.c | ||
| mprotect.c | ||
| mremap.c | ||
| msync.c | ||
| nommu.c | ||
| oom_kill.c | ||
| page_alloc.c | ||
| page_io.c | ||
| page_isolation.c | ||
| page-writeback.c | ||
| pdflush.c | ||
| prio_tree.c | ||
| quicklist.c | ||
| readahead.c | ||
| rmap.c | ||
| shmem_acl.c | ||
| shmem.c | ||
| slab.c | ||
| slob.c | ||
| slub.c | ||
| sparse-vmemmap.c | ||
| sparse.c | ||
| swap_state.c | ||
| swap.c | ||
| swapfile.c | ||
| thrash.c | ||
| tiny-shmem.c | ||
| truncate.c | ||
| util.c | ||
| vmalloc.c | ||
| vmscan.c | ||
| vmstat.c | ||