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A number of nodes which are used in the alloc/free paths is set based on num_possible_cpus() in a system. Please note a high limit threshold though is fixed and corresponds to 128 nodes. For 32-bit or single core systems an access to a global vmap heap is not balanced. Such small systems do not suffer from lock contentions due to low number of CPUs. In such case the nr_nodes is equal to 1. Test on AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core Processor: sudo ./test_vmalloc.sh run_test_mask=7 nr_threads=64 <default perf> 94.41% 0.89% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock 93.35% 93.07% [kernel] [k] native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath 76.13% 0.28% [kernel] [k] __vmalloc_node_range 72.96% 0.81% [kernel] [k] alloc_vmap_area 56.94% 0.00% [kernel] [k] __get_vm_area_node 41.95% 0.00% [kernel] [k] vmalloc 37.15% 0.01% [test_vmalloc] [k] full_fit_alloc_test 35.17% 0.00% [kernel] [k] ret_from_fork_asm 35.17% 0.00% [kernel] [k] ret_from_fork 35.17% 0.00% [kernel] [k] kthread 35.08% 0.00% [test_vmalloc] [k] test_func 34.45% 0.00% [test_vmalloc] [k] fix_size_alloc_test 28.09% 0.01% [test_vmalloc] [k] long_busy_list_alloc_test 23.53% 0.25% [kernel] [k] vfree.part.0 21.72% 0.00% [kernel] [k] remove_vm_area 20.08% 0.21% [kernel] [k] find_unlink_vmap_area 2.34% 0.61% [kernel] [k] free_vmap_area_noflush <default perf> vs <patch-series perf> 82.32% 0.22% [test_vmalloc] [k] long_busy_list_alloc_test 63.36% 0.02% [kernel] [k] vmalloc 63.34% 2.64% [kernel] [k] __vmalloc_node_range 30.42% 4.46% [kernel] [k] vfree.part.0 28.98% 2.51% [kernel] [k] __alloc_pages_bulk 27.28% 0.19% [kernel] [k] __get_vm_area_node 26.13% 1.50% [kernel] [k] alloc_vmap_area 21.72% 21.67% [kernel] [k] clear_page_rep 19.51% 2.43% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock 16.61% 16.51% [kernel] [k] native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath 13.40% 2.07% [kernel] [k] free_unref_page 10.62% 0.01% [kernel] [k] remove_vm_area 9.02% 8.73% [kernel] [k] insert_vmap_area 8.94% 0.00% [kernel] [k] ret_from_fork_asm 8.94% 0.00% [kernel] [k] ret_from_fork 8.94% 0.00% [kernel] [k] kthread 8.29% 0.00% [test_vmalloc] [k] test_func 7.81% 0.05% [test_vmalloc] [k] full_fit_alloc_test 5.30% 4.73% [kernel] [k] purge_vmap_node 4.47% 2.65% [kernel] [k] free_vmap_area_noflush <patch-series perf> confirms that a native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath goes down to 16.51% percent from 93.07%. The throughput is ~12x higher: urezki@pc638:~$ time sudo ./test_vmalloc.sh run_test_mask=7 nr_threads=64 Run the test with following parameters: run_test_mask=7 nr_threads=64 Done. Check the kernel ring buffer to see the summary. real 10m51.271s user 0m0.013s sys 0m0.187s urezki@pc638:~$ urezki@pc638:~$ time sudo ./test_vmalloc.sh run_test_mask=7 nr_threads=64 Run the test with following parameters: run_test_mask=7 nr_threads=64 Done. Check the kernel ring buffer to see the summary. real 0m51.301s user 0m0.015s sys 0m0.040s urezki@pc638:~$ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240102184633.748113-11-urezki@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio-ab@nec.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sony.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.