Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965548AbbEFAzv (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2015 20:55:51 -0400 Received: from g9t5008.houston.hp.com ([15.240.92.66]:38652 "EHLO g9t5008.houston.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965423AbbEFAzt (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2015 20:55:49 -0400 Message-ID: <5549668A.3080503@hp.com> Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 20:55:38 -0400 From: Waiman Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.12) Gecko/20130109 Thunderbird/10.0.12 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mel Gorman CC: Andrew Morton , Nathan Zimmer , Dave Hansen , Scott Norton , Daniel J Blueman , Linux-MM , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13] Parallel struct page initialisation v4 References: <1430231830-7702-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> <554030D1.8080509@hp.com> <5543F802.9090504@hp.com> <554415B1.2050702@hp.com> <20150504143046.9404c572486caf71bdef0676@linux-foundation.org> <20150505104514.GC2462@suse.de> <5548CBE8.5090203@hp.com> <20150505143102.GD2462@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20150505143102.GD2462@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 4494 Lines: 104 On 05/05/2015 10:31 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 09:55:52AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote: >> On 05/05/2015 06:45 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: >>> On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 02:30:46PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >>>>> Before the patch, the boot time from elilo prompt to ssh login was 694s. >>>>> After the patch, the boot up time was 346s, a saving of 348s (about 50%). >>>> Having to guesstimate the amount of memory which is needed for a >>>> successful boot will be painful. Any number we choose will be wrong >>>> 99% of the time. >>>> >>>> If the kswapd threads have started, all we need to do is to wait: take >>>> a little nap in the allocator's page==NULL slowpath. >>>> >>>> I'm not seeing any reason why we can't start kswapd much earlier - >>>> right at the start of do_basic_setup()? >>> It doesn't even have to be kswapd, it just should be a thread pinned to >>> a done. The difficulty is that dealing with the system hashes means the >>> initialisation has to happen before vfs_caches_init_early() when there is >>> no scheduler. Those allocations could be delayed further but then there is >>> the possibility that the allocations would not be contiguous and they'd >>> have to rely on CMA to make the attempt. That potentially alters the >>> performance of the large system hashes at run time. >>> >>> We can scale the amount initialised with memory sizes relatively easy. >>> This boots on the same 1TB machine I was testing before but that is >>> hardly a surprise. >>> >>> ---8<--- >>> mm: meminit: Take into account that large system caches scale linearly with memory >>> >>> Waiman Long reported a 24TB machine triggered an OOM as parallel memory >>> initialisation deferred too much memory for initialisation. The likely >>> consumer of this memory was large system hashes that scale with memory >>> size. This patch initialises at least 2G per node but scales the amount >>> initialised for larger systems. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman >>> --- >>> mm/page_alloc.c | 15 +++++++++++++-- >>> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c >>> index 598f78d6544c..f7cc6c9fb909 100644 >>> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c >>> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c >>> @@ -266,15 +266,16 @@ static inline bool early_page_nid_uninitialised(unsigned long pfn, int nid) >>> */ >>> static inline bool update_defer_init(pg_data_t *pgdat, >>> unsigned long pfn, unsigned long zone_end, >>> + unsigned long max_initialise, >>> unsigned long *nr_initialised) >>> { >>> /* Always populate low zones for address-contrained allocations */ >>> if (zone_end< pgdat_end_pfn(pgdat)) >>> return true; >>> >>> - /* Initialise at least 2G of the highest zone */ >>> + /* Initialise at least the requested amount in the highest zone */ >>> (*nr_initialised)++; >>> - if (*nr_initialised> (2UL<< (30 - PAGE_SHIFT))&& >>> + if ((*nr_initialised> max_initialise)&& >>> (pfn& (PAGES_PER_SECTION - 1)) == 0) { >>> pgdat->first_deferred_pfn = pfn; >>> return false; >>> @@ -299,6 +300,7 @@ static inline bool early_page_nid_uninitialised(unsigned long pfn, int nid) >>> >>> static inline bool update_defer_init(pg_data_t *pgdat, >>> unsigned long pfn, unsigned long zone_end, >>> + unsigned long max_initialise, >>> unsigned long *nr_initialised) >>> { >>> return true; >>> @@ -4457,11 +4459,19 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone, >>> unsigned long end_pfn = start_pfn + size; >>> unsigned long pfn; >>> struct zone *z; >>> + unsigned long max_initialise; >>> unsigned long nr_initialised = 0; >>> >>> if (highest_memmap_pfn< end_pfn - 1) >>> highest_memmap_pfn = end_pfn - 1; >>> >>> + /* >>> + * Initialise at least 2G of a node but also take into account that >>> + * two large system hashes that can take up an 8th of memory. >>> + */ >>> + max_initialise = min(2UL<< (30 - PAGE_SHIFT), >>> + (pgdat->node_spanned_pages>> 3)); >>> + I found an error here. The correct code should be: max_initialise = max(2UL<< (30 - PAGE_SHIFT), (pgdat->node_spanned_pages>> 3)); The error made the 24-TB machine crash again. Cheers, Longman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/