Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:45:41 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] slqb: Do not use DEFINE_PER_CPU for per-node data |
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Hello,
Mel Gorman wrote: > This latter guess was close to the mark but not for the reasons I was > guessing. There isn't magic per-cpu-area-freeing going on. Once I examined > the implementation of per-cpu data, it was clear that the per-cpu areas for > the node IDs were never being allocated in the first place on PowerPC. It's > probable that this never worked but that it took a long time before SLQB > was run on a memoryless configuration.
Ah... okay, so node id was being used to access percpu memory but the id wasn't in cpu_possible_map. Yeah, that will access weird places in between proper percpu areas. I never thought about that. I'll add debug version of percpu access macros which check that the offset and cpu make sense so that things like this can be caught easier.
As Pekka suggested, using MAX_NUMNODES seems more appropriate tho although it's suboptimal in that it would waste memory and more importantly not use node-local memory. :-(
Sachin, does the hang you're seeing also disappear with Mel's patches?
Thanks.
-- tejun
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