kernel_optimize_test/include
Paul Mundt 6193a2ff18 slob: initial NUMA support
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=2

and subsequent threads.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
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acpi Pull osi-now into release branch 2007-06-02 01:02:09 -04:00
asm-alpha page table handling cleanup 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
asm-arm page table handling cleanup 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
asm-arm26 page table handling cleanup 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
asm-avr32 page table handling cleanup 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
asm-blackfin Blackfin arch: Add peripheral io API to gpio header file 2007-07-12 17:06:45 +08:00
asm-cris page table handling cleanup 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
asm-frv page table handling cleanup 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
asm-generic sched: simplify sched_find_first_bit() 2007-07-09 18:52:00 +02:00
asm-h8300 PCI: Use a weak symbol for the empty version of pcibios_add_platform_entries() 2007-07-11 16:02:07 -07:00
asm-i386 kill vmalloc_earlyreserve 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
asm-ia64 page table handling cleanup 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
asm-m32r page table handling cleanup 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
asm-m68k page table handling cleanup 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
asm-m68knommu PCI: remove pci_dac_dma_... APIs 2007-07-11 16:02:11 -07:00
asm-mips page table handling cleanup 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
asm-parisc page table handling cleanup 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
asm-powerpc page table handling cleanup 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
asm-ppc page table handling cleanup 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
asm-s390 page table handling cleanup 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
asm-sh page table handling cleanup 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
asm-sh64 page table handling cleanup 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
asm-sparc page table handling cleanup 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
asm-sparc64 page table handling cleanup 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
asm-um page table handling cleanup 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
asm-v850 PCI: remove pci_dac_dma_... APIs 2007-07-11 16:02:11 -07:00
asm-x86_64 page table handling cleanup 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
asm-xtensa page table handling cleanup 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
crypto
keys
linux slob: initial NUMA support 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
math-emu
media
mtd
net Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2007-07-15 16:50:46 -07:00
pcmcia PCMCIA-NETDEV : add new ID of lan&modem multifunction card 2007-07-08 22:16:39 -04:00
rdma IB/cm: Include HCA ACK delay in local ACK timeout 2007-07-10 21:50:05 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi [SCSI] Remove unused method scsi_device_cancel 2007-07-14 16:01:16 -05:00
sound [ALSA] version 1.0.14 2007-05-31 11:03:27 +02:00
video
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