Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262713AbUCEVHS (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:07:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262710AbUCEVHS (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:07:18 -0500 Received: from ppp-217-133-42-200.cust-adsl.tiscali.it ([217.133.42.200]:55824 "EHLO dualathlon.random") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262704AbUCEVHP (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:07:15 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 22:07:55 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Andrew Morton Cc: mbligh@aracnet.com, mingo@elte.hu, peter@mysql.com, riel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.23aa2 (bugfixes and important VM improvements for the high end) Message-ID: <20040305210755.GW4922@dualathlon.random> References: <1078371876.3403.810.camel@abyss.local> <20040305103308.GA5092@elte.hu> <20040305141504.GY4922@dualathlon.random> <20040305143210.GA11897@elte.hu> <20040305145837.GZ4922@dualathlon.random> <39960000.1078512175@flay> <20040305191329.GR4922@dualathlon.random> <56050000.1078516505@flay> <20040305202941.GT4922@dualathlon.random> <20040305124119.756aab4c.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040305124119.756aab4c.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: 1024D/68B9CB43 13D9 8355 295F 4823 7C49 C012 DFA1 686E 68B9 CB43 X-PGP-Key: 1024R/CB4660B9 CC A0 71 81 F4 A0 63 AC C0 4B 81 1D 8C 15 C8 E5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1066 Lines: 23 On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:41:19PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > > > > The main thing you didn't mention is the overhead in the per-cpu data > > > > structures, that alone generates an overhead of several dozen mbytes > > > > only in the page allocator, without accounting the slab caches, > > > > pagetable caches etc.. putting an high limit to the per-cpu caches > > > > should make a 32-way 32G work fine with 3:1 too though. 8-way is > > > > fine with 32G currently. > > > > > > Humpf. Do you have a hard figure on how much it actually is per cpu? > > > > not a definitive one, but it's sure more than 2m per cpu, could be 3m > > per cpu. > > It'll average out to 68 pages per cpu. (4 in ZONE_DMA, 64 in ZONE_NORMAL). 3m per cpu with all 3m in zone normal. - 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/