18 Jul, 2007
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With the slab zeroing allocations cleanups Christoph stubbed in a generic
kzalloc(), which was missed on SLOB. Follow the SLAB/SLUB changes and
kill off the __kzalloc() wrapper that SLOB was using.Reported-by: Jan Engelhardt
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Jul, 2007
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This adds preliminary NUMA support to SLOB, primarily aimed at systems with
small nodes (tested all the way down to a 128kB SRAM block), whether
asymmetric or otherwise.We follow the same conventions as SLAB/SLUB, preferring current node
placement for new pages, or with explicit placement, if a node has been
specified. Presently on UP NUMA this has the side-effect of preferring
node#0 allocations (since numa_node_id() == 0, though this could be
reworked if we could hand off a pfn to determine node placement), so
single-CPU NUMA systems will want to place smaller nodes further out in
terms of node id. Once a page has been bound to a node (via explicit node
id typing), we only do block allocations from partial free pages that have
a matching node id in the page flags.The current implementation does have some scalability problems, in that all
partial free pages are tracked in the global freelist (with contention due
to the single spinlock). However, these are things that are being reworked
for SMP scalability first, while things like per-node freelists can easily
be built on top of this sort of functionality once it's been added.More background can be found in:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=118117916022379&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=118170446306199&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=118187859420048&w=2and subsequent threads.
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter
Acked-by: Matt Mackall
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt
Acked-by: Nick Piggin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds