Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:03:40 +0100 | From | Eric Dumazet <> | Subject | Questions about alloc_large_system_hash() and TLB entries |
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alloc_large_system_hash() is used to allocate large hash tables at boot time.
Example on a 2 nodes NUMA machine :
Inode-cache hash table entries: 1048576 (order: 11, 8388608 bytes) IP route cache hash table entries: 2097152 (order: 12, 16777216 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 2097152 (order: 12, 16777216 bytes)
Memory is taken from : bootmem if (flags & HASH_EARLY) __vmalloc() if (hashdist is set) (NUMA knob) __get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, order);
What would be the needed changes in the code to get both :
- Allocate ram equally from all the nodes of the machine
- Use large pages (2MB) to lower TLB stress
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