From: Yinghai Lu Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:51:06 +0000 (-0700) Subject: mm: make mem_map allocation continuous X-Git-Tag: v2.6.26-rc1~1035^2~6 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e123dd3f0ec1664576456ea1ea045591a0a95f0c;p=pandora-kernel.git mm: make mem_map allocation continuous vmemmap allocation currently has this layout: [ffffe20000000000-ffffe200001fffff] PMD ->ffff810001400000 on node 0 [ffffe20000200000-ffffe200003fffff] PMD ->ffff810001800000 on node 0 [ffffe20000400000-ffffe200005fffff] PMD ->ffff810001c00000 on node 0 [ffffe20000600000-ffffe200007fffff] PMD ->ffff810002000000 on node 0 [ffffe20000800000-ffffe200009fffff] PMD ->ffff810002400000 on node 0 ... note that there is a 2M hole between them - not optimal. the root cause is that usemap (24 bytes) will be allocated after every 2M mem_map, and it will push next vmemmap (2M) to the next (2M) alignment. solution: try to allocate the mem_map continously. after the patch, we get: [ffffe20000000000-ffffe200001fffff] PMD ->ffff810001400000 on node 0 [ffffe20000200000-ffffe200003fffff] PMD ->ffff810001600000 on node 0 [ffffe20000400000-ffffe200005fffff] PMD ->ffff810001800000 on node 0 [ffffe20000600000-ffffe200007fffff] PMD ->ffff810001a00000 on node 0 [ffffe20000800000-ffffe200009fffff] PMD ->ffff810001c00000 on node 0 ... which is the ideal layout. and usemap will share a page because of they are allocated continuously too: sparse_early_usemap_alloc: usemap = ffff810024e00000 size = 24 sparse_early_usemap_alloc: usemap = ffff810024e00080 size = 24 sparse_early_usemap_alloc: usemap = ffff810024e00100 size = 24 sparse_early_usemap_alloc: usemap = ffff810024e00180 size = 24 ... so we make the bootmem allocation more compact and use less memory for usemap => mission accomplished ;-) Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed