11007 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Christoph Lameter
441e143e95 [PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_DMA
SLAB_DMA is an alias of GFP_DMA. This is the last one so we
remove the leftover comment too.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:24 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
e94b176609 [PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_KERNEL
SLAB_KERNEL is an alias of GFP_KERNEL.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:24 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
54e6ecb239 [PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_ATOMIC
SLAB_ATOMIC is an alias of GFP_ATOMIC

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:24 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
f7267c0c07 [PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_USER
SLAB_USER is an alias of GFP_USER

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:24 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
e6b4f8da3a [PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_NOFS
SLAB_NOFS is an alias of GFP_NOFS.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:23 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
55acbda096 [PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_NOIO
SLAB_NOIO is an alias of GFP_NOIO with a single instance of use.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:23 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
a06d72c1dc [PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_LEVEL_MASK
SLAB_LEVEL_MASK is only used internally to the slab and is
and alias of GFP_LEVEL_MASK.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:23 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
6e0eaa4b05 [PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_NO_GROW
It is only used internally in the slab.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:23 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
4af2bfc120 [PATCH] silence unused pgdat warning from alloc_bootmem_node and friends
x86 NUMA systems only define bootmem for node 0.  alloc_bootmem_node() and
friends therefore ignore the passed pgdat and use NODE_DATA(0) in all
cases.  This leads to the following warnings as we are not using the passed
parameter:

  .../mm/page_alloc.c: In function 'zone_wait_table_init':
  .../mm/page_alloc.c:2259: warning: unused variable 'pgdat'

One option would be to define all variables used with these macros
__attribute__ ((unused)), but this would leave us exposed should these
become genuinely unused.

The key here is that we _are_ using the value, we ignore it but that is a
deliberate action.  This patch adds a nested local variable within the
alloc_bootmem_node helper to which the pgdat parameter is assigned making
it 'used'.  The nested local is marked __attribute__ ((unused)) to silence
this same warning for it.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:23 -08:00
Andy Whitcroft
25ba77c141 [PATCH] numa node ids are int, page_to_nid and zone_to_nid should return int
NUMA node ids are passed as either int or unsigned int almost exclusivly
page_to_nid and zone_to_nid both return unsigned long.  This is a throw
back to when page_to_nid was a #define and was thus exposing the real type
of the page flags field.

In addition to fixing up the definitions of page_to_nid and zone_to_nid I
audited the users of these functions identifying the following incorrect
uses:

1) mm/page_alloc.c show_node() -- printk dumping the node id,
2) include/asm-ia64/pgalloc.h pgtable_quicklist_free() -- comparison
   against numa_node_id() which returns an int from cpu_to_node(), and
3) mm/mpolicy.c check_pte_range -- used as an index in node_isset which
   uses bit_set which in generic code takes an int.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:23 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
ebe29738f3 [PATCH] Remove uses of kmem_cache_t from mm/* and include/linux/slab.h
Remove all uses of kmem_cache_t (the most were left in slab.h).  The
typedef for kmem_cache_t is then only necessary for other kernel
subsystems.  Add a comment to that effect.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:23 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
b86c089b83 [PATCH] Move names_cachep to linux/fs.h
The names_cachep is used for getname() and putname().  So lets put it into
fs.h near those two definitions.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:23 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
aa362a83e7 [PATCH] Move fs_cachep to linux/fs_struct.h
fs_cachep is only used in kernel/exit.c and in kernel/fork.c.

It is used to store fs_struct items so it should be placed in linux/fs_struct.h

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:23 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
8b7d91eb7f [PATCH] Move filep_cachep to include/file.h
filp_cachep is only used in fs/file_table.c and in fs/dcache.c where
it is defined.

Move it to related definitions in linux/file.h.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:23 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
5d6538fcf2 [PATCH] Move files_cachep to include/file.h
Proper place is in file.h since files_cachep uses are rated to file I/O.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:22 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
c43692e85f [PATCH] Move vm_area_cachep to include/mm.h
vm_area_cachep is used to store vm_area_structs. So move to mm.h.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:22 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
298ec1e2ac [PATCH] Move sighand_cachep to include/signal.h
Move sighand_cachep definitioni to linux/signal.h

The sighand cache is only used in fs/exec.c and kernel/fork.c.  It is defined
in kernel/fork.c but only used in fs/exec.c.

The sighand_cachep is related to signal processing.  So add the definition to
signal.h.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:22 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
54cc211ce3 [PATCH] Remove bio_cachep from slab.h
Remove bio_cachep from slab.h - it no longer exists.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:22 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
b30973f877 [PATCH] node-aware skb allocation
Node-aware allocation of skbs for the receive path.

Details:

  - __alloc_skb gets a new node argument and cals the node-aware
    slab functions with it.
  - netdev_alloc_skb passed the node number it gets from dev_to_node
    to it, everyone else passes -1 (any node)

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:22 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
873481367e [PATCH] add numa node information to struct device
For node-aware skb allocations we need information about the node in struct
net_device or struct device.  Davem suggested to put it into struct device
which this patch does.

In particular:

 - struct device gets a new int numa_node member if CONFIG_NUMA is set
 - there are two new helpers, dev_to_node and set_dev_node to
   transparently deal with the non-numa case
 - for pci devices the node-info is set to the value we get from
   pcibus_to_node.

Note that for some architectures pcibus_to_node doesn't work yet at the time
we call it currently.  This is harmless and will just mean skb allocations
aren't node-local on this architectures until the implementation of
pcibus_to_node on these architectures have been updated (There are patches for
x86 and x86_64 floating around)

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:22 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
8b98c1699e [PATCH] leak tracking for kmalloc_node
We have variants of kmalloc and kmem_cache_alloc that leave leak tracking to
the caller.  This is used for subsystem-specific allocators like skb_alloc.

To make skb_alloc node-aware we need similar routines for the node-aware slab
allocator, which this patch adds.

Note that the code is rather ugly, but it mirrors the non-node-aware code 1:1:

[akpm@osdl.org: add module export]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:22 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra
ad76fb6b5a [PATCH] mm: k{,um}map_atomic() vs in_atomic()
Make kmap_atomic/kunmap_atomic denote a pagefault disabled scope.  All non
trivial implementations already do this anyway.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:21 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra
a866374aec [PATCH] mm: pagefault_{disable,enable}()
Introduce pagefault_{disable,enable}() and use these where previously we did
manual preempt increments/decrements to make the pagefault handler do the
atomic thing.

Currently they still rely on the increased preempt count, but do not rely on
the disabled preemption, this might go away in the future.

(NOTE: the extra barrier() in pagefault_disable might fix some holes on
       machines which have too many registers for their own good)

[heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: s390 fix]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:21 -08:00
Chen, Kenneth W
39dde65c99 [PATCH] shared page table for hugetlb page
Following up with the work on shared page table done by Dave McCracken.  This
set of patch target shared page table for hugetlb memory only.

The shared page table is particular useful in the situation of large number of
independent processes sharing large shared memory segments.  In the normal
page case, the amount of memory saved from process' page table is quite
significant.  For hugetlb, the saving on page table memory is not the primary
objective (as hugetlb itself already cuts down page table overhead
significantly), instead, the purpose of using shared page table on hugetlb is
to allow faster TLB refill and smaller cache pollution upon TLB miss.

With PT sharing, pte entries are shared among hundreds of processes, the cache
consumption used by all the page table is smaller and in return, application
gets much higher cache hit ratio.  One other effect is that cache hit ratio
with hardware page walker hitting on pte in cache will be higher and this
helps to reduce tlb miss latency.  These two effects contribute to higher
application performance.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:21 -08:00
Nick Piggin
cc10250907 [PATCH] mm: add arch_alloc_page
Add an arch_alloc_page to match arch_free_page.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:21 -08:00
Ashwin Chaugule
7602bdf2fd [PATCH] new scheme to preempt swap token
The new swap token patches replace the current token traversal algo.  The old
algo had a crude timeout parameter that was used to handover the token from
one task to another.  This algo, transfers the token to the tasks that are in
need of the token.  The urgency for the token is based on the number of times
a task is required to swap-in pages.  Accordingly, the priority of a task is
incremented if it has been badly affected due to swap-outs.  To ensure that
the token doesnt bounce around rapidly, the token holders are given a priority
boost.  The priority of tasks is also decremented, if their rate of swap-in's
keeps reducing.  This way, the condition to check whether to pre-empt the swap
token, is a matter of comparing two task's priority fields.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule <ashwin.chaugule@celunite.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:21 -08:00
Paul Jackson
7253f4ef04 [PATCH] memory page_alloc zonelist caching reorder structure
Rearrange the struct members in the 'struct zonelist_cache' structure, so
as to put the readonly (once initialized) z_to_n[] array first, where it
will come right after the zones[] array in struct zonelist.

This pretty much eliminates the chance that the two frequently written
elements of 'struct zonelist_cache', the fullzones bitmap and last_full_zap
times, will end up on the same cache line as the performance sensitive,
frequently read, never (after init) written zones[] array.

Keeping frequently written data off frequently read cache lines is good for
performance.

Thanks to Rohit Seth for the suggestion.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Rohit Seth <rohitseth@google.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:20 -08:00
Paul Jackson
9276b1bc96 [PATCH] memory page_alloc zonelist caching speedup
Optimize the critical zonelist scanning for free pages in the kernel memory
allocator by caching the zones that were found to be full recently, and
skipping them.

Remembers the zones in a zonelist that were short of free memory in the
last second.  And it stashes a zone-to-node table in the zonelist struct,
to optimize that conversion (minimize its cache footprint.)

Recent changes:

    This differs in a significant way from a similar patch that I
    posted a week ago.  Now, instead of having a nodemask_t of
    recently full nodes, I have a bitmask of recently full zones.
    This solves a problem that last weeks patch had, which on
    systems with multiple zones per node (such as DMA zone) would
    take seeing any of these zones full as meaning that all zones
    on that node were full.

    Also I changed names - from "zonelist faster" to "zonelist cache",
    as that seemed to better convey what we're doing here - caching
    some of the key zonelist state (for faster access.)

    See below for some performance benchmark results.  After all that
    discussion with David on why I didn't need them, I went and got
    some ;).  I wanted to verify that I had not hurt the normal case
    of memory allocation noticeably.  At least for my one little
    microbenchmark, I found (1) the normal case wasn't affected, and
    (2) workloads that forced scanning across multiple nodes for
    memory improved up to 10% fewer System CPU cycles and lower
    elapsed clock time ('sys' and 'real').  Good.  See details, below.

    I didn't have the logic in get_page_from_freelist() for various
    full nodes and zone reclaim failures correct.  That should be
    fixed up now - notice the new goto labels zonelist_scan,
    this_zone_full, and try_next_zone, in get_page_from_freelist().

There are two reasons I persued this alternative, over some earlier
proposals that would have focused on optimizing the fake numa
emulation case by caching the last useful zone:

 1) Contrary to what I said before, we (SGI, on large ia64 sn2 systems)
    have seen real customer loads where the cost to scan the zonelist
    was a problem, due to many nodes being full of memory before
    we got to a node we could use.  Or at least, I think we have.
    This was related to me by another engineer, based on experiences
    from some time past.  So this is not guaranteed.  Most likely, though.

    The following approach should help such real numa systems just as
    much as it helps fake numa systems, or any combination thereof.

 2) The effort to distinguish fake from real numa, using node_distance,
    so that we could cache a fake numa node and optimize choosing
    it over equivalent distance fake nodes, while continuing to
    properly scan all real nodes in distance order, was going to
    require a nasty blob of zonelist and node distance munging.

    The following approach has no new dependency on node distances or
    zone sorting.

See comment in the patch below for a description of what it actually does.

Technical details of note (or controversy):

 - See the use of "zlc_active" and "did_zlc_setup" below, to delay
   adding any work for this new mechanism until we've looked at the
   first zone in zonelist.  I figured the odds of the first zone
   having the memory we needed were high enough that we should just
   look there, first, then get fancy only if we need to keep looking.

 - Some odd hackery was needed to add items to struct zonelist, while
   not tripping up the custom zonelists built by the mm/mempolicy.c
   code for MPOL_BIND.  My usual wordy comments below explain this.
   Search for "MPOL_BIND".

 - Some per-node data in the struct zonelist is now modified frequently,
   with no locking.  Multiple CPU cores on a node could hit and mangle
   this data.  The theory is that this is just performance hint data,
   and the memory allocator will work just fine despite any such mangling.
   The fields at risk are the struct 'zonelist_cache' fields 'fullzones'
   (a bitmask) and 'last_full_zap' (unsigned long jiffies).  It should
   all be self correcting after at most a one second delay.

 - This still does a linear scan of the same lengths as before.  All
   I've optimized is making the scan faster, not algorithmically
   shorter.  It is now able to scan a compact array of 'unsigned
   short' in the case of many full nodes, so one cache line should
   cover quite a few nodes, rather than each node hitting another
   one or two new and distinct cache lines.

 - If both Andi and Nick don't find this too complicated, I will be
   (pleasantly) flabbergasted.

 - I removed the comment claiming we only use one cachline's worth of
   zonelist.  We seem, at least in the fake numa case, to have put the
   lie to that claim.

 - I pay no attention to the various watermarks and such in this performance
   hint.  A node could be marked full for one watermark, and then skipped
   over when searching for a page using a different watermark.  I think
   that's actually quite ok, as it will tend to slightly increase the
   spreading of memory over other nodes, away from a memory stressed node.

===============

Performance - some benchmark results and analysis:

This benchmark runs a memory hog program that uses multiple
threads to touch alot of memory as quickly as it can.

Multiple runs were made, touching 12, 38, 64 or 90 GBytes out of
the total 96 GBytes on the system, and using 1, 19, 37, or 55
threads (on a 56 CPU system.)  System, user and real (elapsed)
timings were recorded for each run, shown in units of seconds,
in the table below.

Two kernels were tested - 2.6.18-mm3 and the same kernel with
this zonelist caching patch added.  The table also shows the
percentage improvement the zonelist caching sys time is over
(lower than) the stock *-mm kernel.

      number     2.6.18-mm3	   zonelist-cache    delta (< 0 good)	percent
 GBs    N  	------------	   --------------    ----------------	systime
 mem threads   sys user  real	  sys  user  real     sys  user  real	 better
  12	 1     153   24   177	  151	 24   176      -2     0    -1	   1%
  12	19	99   22     8	   99	 22	8	0     0     0	   0%
  12	37     111   25     6	  112	 25	6	1     0     0	  -0%
  12	55     115   25     5	  110	 23	5      -5    -2     0	   4%
  38	 1     502   74   576	  497	 73   570      -5    -1    -6	   0%
  38	19     426   78    48	  373	 76    39     -53    -2    -9	  12%
  38	37     544   83    36	  547	 82    36	3    -1     0	  -0%
  38	55     501   77    23	  511	 80    24      10     3     1	  -1%
  64	 1     917  125  1042	  890	124  1014     -27    -1   -28	   2%
  64	19    1118  138   119	  965	141   103    -153     3   -16	  13%
  64	37    1202  151    94	 1136	150    81     -66    -1   -13	   5%
  64	55    1118  141    61	 1072	140    58     -46    -1    -3	   4%
  90	 1    1342  177  1519	 1275	174  1450     -67    -3   -69	   4%
  90	19    2392  199   192	 2116	189   176    -276   -10   -16	  11%
  90	37    3313  238   175	 2972	225   145    -341   -13   -30	  10%
  90	55    1948  210   104	 1843	213   100    -105     3    -4	   5%

Notes:
 1) This test ran a memory hog program that started a specified number N of
    threads, and had each thread allocate and touch 1/N'th of
    the total memory to be used in the test run in a single loop,
    writing a constant word to memory, one store every 4096 bytes.
    Watching this test during some earlier trial runs, I would see
    each of these threads sit down on one CPU and stay there, for
    the remainder of the pass, a different CPU for each thread.

 2) The 'real' column is not comparable to the 'sys' or 'user' columns.
    The 'real' column is seconds wall clock time elapsed, from beginning
    to end of that test pass.  The 'sys' and 'user' columns are total
    CPU seconds spent on that test pass.  For a 19 thread test run,
    for example, the sum of 'sys' and 'user' could be up to 19 times the
    number of 'real' elapsed wall clock seconds.

 3) Tests were run on a fresh, single-user boot, to minimize the amount
    of memory already in use at the start of the test, and to minimize
    the amount of background activity that might interfere.

 4) Tests were done on a 56 CPU, 28 Node system with 96 GBytes of RAM.

 5) Notice that the 'real' time gets large for the single thread runs, even
    though the measured 'sys' and 'user' times are modest.  I'm not sure what
    that means - probably something to do with it being slow for one thread to
    be accessing memory along ways away.  Perhaps the fake numa system, running
    ostensibly the same workload, would not show this substantial degradation
    of 'real' time for one thread on many nodes -- lets hope not.

 6) The high thread count passes (one thread per CPU - on 55 of 56 CPUs)
    ran quite efficiently, as one might expect.  Each pair of threads needed
    to allocate and touch the memory on the node the two threads shared, a
    pleasantly parallizable workload.

 7) The intermediate thread count passes, when asking for alot of memory forcing
    them to go to a few neighboring nodes, improved the most with this zonelist
    caching patch.

Conclusions:
 * This zonelist cache patch probably makes little difference one way or the
   other for most workloads on real numa hardware, if those workloads avoid
   heavy off node allocations.
 * For memory intensive workloads requiring substantial off-node allocations
   on real numa hardware, this patch improves both kernel and elapsed timings
   up to ten per-cent.
 * For fake numa systems, I'm optimistic, but will have to leave that up to
   Rohit Seth to actually test (once I get him a 2.6.18 backport.)

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Rohit Seth <rohitseth@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@cs.washington.edu>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:20 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
89689ae7f9 [PATCH] Get rid of zone_table[]
The zone table is mostly not needed.  If we have a node in the page flags
then we can get to the zone via NODE_DATA() which is much more likely to be
already in the cpu cache.

In case of SMP and UP NODE_DATA() is a constant pointer which allows us to
access an exact replica of zonetable in the node_zones field.  In all of
the above cases there will be no need at all for the zone table.

The only remaining case is if in a NUMA system the node numbers do not fit
into the page flags.  In that case we make sparse generate a table that
maps sections to nodes and use that table to to figure out the node number.
 This table is sized to fit in a single cache line for the known 32 bit
NUMA platform which makes it very likely that the information can be
obtained without a cache miss.

For sparsemem the zone table seems to be have been fairly large based on
the maximum possible number of sections and the number of zones per node.
There is some memory saving by removing zone_table.  The main benefit is to
reduce the cache foootprint of the VM from the frequent lookups of zones.
Plus it simplifies the page allocator.

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:20 -08:00
Andrew Morton
676dcb8bc2 [PATCH] add bottom_half.h
With CONFIG_SMP=n:

  drivers/input/ff-memless.c:384: warning: implicit declaration of function 'local_bh_disable'
  drivers/input/ff-memless.c:393: warning: implicit declaration of function 'local_bh_enable'

Really linux/spinlock.h should include linux/interrupt.h.  But interrupt.h
includes sched.h which will need spinlock.h.

So the patch breaks the _bh declarations out into a separate header and
includes it in both interrupt.h and spinlock.h.

Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:20 -08:00
Pavel Pisa
86987d5bf4 [ARM] 3991/1: i.MX/MX1 high resolution time source
Enhanced resolution for time measurement functions.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Pisa <pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-12-07 16:24:16 +00:00
Ben Dooks
9073341c2b [ARM] 3986/1: H1940: suspend to RAM support
Add support to suspend and resume, using the
H1940's bootloader

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-12-07 16:17:49 +00:00
Rod Whitby
a47d08e2e3 [ARM] 3984/1: ixp4xx/nslu2: Fix disk LED numbering (take 2)
This patch fixes an error in the numbering of the disk LEDs on the
Linksys NSLU2. The error crept in because the physical location
of the LEDs has the Disk 2 LED *above* the Disk 1 LED.

Thanks to Gordon Farquharson for reporting this.

Signed-off-by: Rod Whitby <rod@whitby.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-12-07 16:17:06 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre
838ccbc35e [ARM] 3978/1: macro to provide a 63-bit value from a 32-bit hardware counter
This is done in a completely lockless fashion. Bits 0 to 31 of the count
are provided by the hardware while bits 32 to 62 are stored in memory.
The top bit in memory is used to synchronize with the hardware count
half-period.  When the top bit of both counters (hardware and in memory)
differ then the memory is updated with a new value, incrementing it when
the hardware counter wraps around.  Because a word store in memory is
atomic then the incremented value will always be in synch with the top
bit indicating to any potential concurrent reader if the value in memory
is up to date or not wrt the needed increment.  And any race in updating
the value in memory is harmless as the same value would be stored more
than once.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-12-07 16:06:45 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre
fa4adc6149 [ARM] 3611/4: optimize do_div() when divisor is constant
On ARM all divisions have to be performed "manually".  For 64-bit
divisions that may take more than a hundred cycles in many cases.

With 32-bit divisions gcc already use the recyprocal of constant
divisors to perform a multiplication, but not with 64-bit divisions.

Since the kernel is increasingly relying upon 64-bit divisions it is
worth optimizing at least those cases where the divisor is a constant.
This is what this patch does using plain C code that gets optimized away
at compile time.

For example, despite the amount of added C code, do_div(x, 10000) now
produces the following assembly code (where x is assigned to r0-r1):

	adr	r4, .L0
	ldmia	r4, {r4-r5}
	umull	r2, r3, r4, r0
	mov	r2, #0
	umlal	r3, r2, r5, r0
	umlal	r3, r2, r4, r1
	mov	r3, #0
	umlal	r2, r3, r5, r1
	mov	r0, r2, lsr #11
	orr	r0, r0, r3, lsl #21
	mov	r1, r3, lsr #11
	...
.L0:
	.word	948328779
	.word	879609302

which is the fastest that can be done for any value of x in that case,
many times faster than the __do_div64 code (except for the small x value
space for which the result ends up being zero or a single bit).

The fact that this code is generated inline produces a tiny increase in
.text size, but not significant compared to the needed code around each
__do_div64 call site this code is replacing.

The algorithm used has been validated on a 16-bit scale for all possible
values, and then recodified for 64-bit values.  Furthermore I've been
running it with the final BUG_ON() uncommented for over two months now
with no problem.

Note that this new code is compiled with gcc versions 4.0 or later.
Earlier gcc versions proved themselves too problematic and only the
original code is used with them.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-12-07 16:06:09 +00:00
Michael Chan
9d26e21342 [TG3]: Add TG3_FLG2_IS_NIC flag.
Add Tg3_FLG2_IS_NIC flag to unambiguously determine whether the
device is NIC or onboard.  Previously, the EEPROM_WRITE_PROT flag was
overloaded to also mean onboard.  With the separation, we can
support some devices that are onboard but do not use eeprom write
protect.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-07 00:21:14 -08:00
Michael Chan
676917d488 [TG3]: Add 5787F device ID.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-07 00:20:22 -08:00
Joy Latten
c9204d9ca7 audit: disable ipsec auditing when CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=n
Disables auditing in ipsec when CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is
disabled in the kernel.

Also includes a bug fix for xfrm_state.c as a result of
original ipsec audit patch.

Signed-off-by: Joy Latten <latten@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-06 20:14:23 -08:00
Joy Latten
161a09e737 audit: Add auditing to ipsec
An audit message occurs when an ipsec SA
or ipsec policy is created/deleted.

Signed-off-by: Joy Latten <latten@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-06 20:14:22 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
95b99a670d [IRDA] irlan: Fix compile warning when CONFIG_PROC_FS=n
include/net/irda/irlan_filter.h:31: warning: 'struct seq_file' declared inside parameter list
include/net/irda/irlan_filter.h:31: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-06 20:10:07 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai
9ee0779e99 [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: fix warning in PPTP helper
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-06 18:39:04 -08:00
Rik Snel
c494e0705d [CRYPTO] lib: table driven multiplications in GF(2^128)
A lot of cypher modes need multiplications in GF(2^128). LRW, ABL, GCM...
I use functions from this library in my LRW implementation and I will
also use them in my ABL (Arbitrary Block Length, an unencumbered (correct
me if I am wrong, wide block cipher mode).

Elements of GF(2^128) must be presented as u128 *, it encourages automatic
and proper alignment.

The library contains support for two different representations of GF(2^128),
see the comment in gf128mul.h. There different levels of optimization
(memory/speed tradeoff).

The code is based on work by Dr Brian Gladman. Notable changes:
- deletion of two optimization modes
- change from u32 to u64 for faster handling on 64bit machines
- support for 'bbe' representation in addition to the, already implemented,
  'lle' representation.
- move 'inline void' functions from header to 'static void' in the
  source file
- update to use the linux coding style conventions

The original can be found at:
http://fp.gladman.plus.com/AES/modes.vc8.19-06-06.zip

The copyright (and GPL statement) of the original author is preserved.

Signed-off-by: Rik Snel <rsnel@cube.dyndns.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-12-06 18:38:55 -08:00
Rik Snel
aec3694b98 [CRYPTO] lib: some common 128-bit block operations, nicely centralized
128bit is a common blocksize in linux kernel cryptography, so it helps to
centralize some common operations.

The code, while mostly trivial, is based on a header file mode_hdr.h in
http://fp.gladman.plus.com/AES/modes.vc8.19-06-06.zip

The original copyright (and GPL statement) of the original author,
Dr Brian Gladman, is preserved.

Signed-off-by: Rik Snel <rsnel@cube.dyndns.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-12-06 18:38:55 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
cc44215eaa [CRYPTO] api: Remove unused functions
This patch removes the following no longer used functions:
- api.c: crypto_alg_available()
- digest.c: crypto_digest_init()
- digest.c: crypto_digest_update()
- digest.c: crypto_digest_final()
- digest.c: crypto_digest_digest()

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-12-06 18:38:54 -08:00
Kazunori MIYAZAWA
7cf4c1a5fd [IPSEC]: Add support for AES-XCBC-MAC
The glue of xfrm.

Signed-off-by: Kazunori MIYAZAWA <miyazawa@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-12-06 18:38:51 -08:00
Jamal Hadi Salim
334c29a645 [GENETLINK]: Move command capabilities to flags.
This patch moves command capabilities to command flags. Other than
being cleaner, saves several bytes.
We increment the nlctrl version so as to signal to user space that
to not expect the attributes. We will try to be careful
not to do this too often ;->

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-06 18:38:41 -08:00
Jan Beulich
b65780e123 [PATCH] unwinder: move .eh_frame to RODATA
The .eh_frame section contents is never written to, so it can as well
benefit from CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA.

Diff-ed against firstfloor tree.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:19 +01:00
Burman Yan
116780fc04 [PATCH] i386: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:19 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
d7fb027128 [PATCH] x86-64: remove remaining pc98 code
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:19 +01:00
Andi Kleen
9dc452ba2d [PATCH] x86-64: Fix constraints in atomic_add_return()
Following i386 from Duncan Sands
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:13 +01:00