kernel/linux.git/drivers/base/node.c, branch linux-2.6.18.y

[PATCH] /proc/meminfo: don't put spaces in names

2006-08-27T18:01:33+00:00

None of the other /proc/meminfo lines have a space in the identifier. This post-2.6.17 addition has the potential to break existing parsers, so use an underscore instead (like Committed_AS). Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Use Zoned VM Counters for NUMA statistics

2006-06-30T18:25:36+00:00

The numa statistics are really event counters. But they are per node and so we have had special treatment for these counters through additional fields on the pcp structure. We can now use the per zone nature of the zoned VM counters to realize these. This will shrink the size of the pcp structure on NUMA systems. We will have some room to add additional per zone counters that will all still fit in the same cacheline. Bits Prior pcp size Size after patch We can add ------------------------------------------------------------------ 64 128 bytes (16 words) 80 bytes (10 words) 48 32 76 bytes (19 words) 56 bytes (14 words) 8 (64 byte cacheline) 72 (128 byte) Remove the special statistics for numa and replace them with zoned vm counters. This has the side effect that global sums of these events now show up in /proc/vmstat. Also take the opportunity to move the zone_statistics() function from page_alloc.c into vmstat.c. Discussions: V2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=115048227000002&r=1&w=2 Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Acked-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_bounce to per zone counter

2006-06-30T18:25:36+00:00

Conversion of nr_bounce to a per zone counter nr_bounce is only used for proc output. So it could be left as an event counter. However, the event counters may not be accurate and nr_bounce is categorizing types of pages in a zone. So we really need this to also be a per zone counter. [akpm@osdl.org: bugfix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_unstable to per zone counter

2006-06-30T18:25:36+00:00

Conversion of nr_unstable to a per zone counter We need to do some special modifications to the nfs code since there are multiple cases of disposition and we need to have a page ref for proper accounting. This converts the last critical page state of the VM and therefore we need to remove several functions that were depending on GET_PAGE_STATE_LAST in order to make the kernel compile again. We are only left with event type counters in page state. [akpm@osdl.org: bugfixes] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_writeback to per zone counter

2006-06-30T18:25:35+00:00

Conversion of nr_writeback to per zone counter. This removes the last page_state counter from arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c so we drop the page_state from there. [akpm@osdl.org: bugfix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_dirty to per zone counter

2006-06-30T18:25:35+00:00

This makes nr_dirty a per zone counter. Looping over all processors is avoided during writeback state determination. The counter aggregation for nr_dirty had to be undone in the NFS layer since we summed up the page counts from multiple zones. Someone more familiar with NFS should probably review what I have done. [akpm@osdl.org: bugfix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_pagetables to per zone counter

2006-06-30T18:25:35+00:00

Conversion of nr_page_table_pages to a per zone counter [akpm@osdl.org: bugfix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_slab to per zone counter

2006-06-30T18:25:35+00:00

- Allows reclaim to access counter without looping over processor counts. - Allows accurate statistics on how many pages are used in a zone by the slab. This may become useful to balance slab allocations over various zones. [akpm@osdl.org: bugfix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] zoned vm counters: split NR_ANON_PAGES off from NR_FILE_MAPPED

2006-06-30T18:25:35+00:00

The current NR_FILE_MAPPED is used by zone reclaim and the dirty load calculation as the number of mapped pagecache pages. However, that is not true. NR_FILE_MAPPED includes the mapped anonymous pages. This patch separates those and therefore allows an accurate tracking of the anonymous pages per zone. It then becomes possible to determine the number of unmapped pages per zone and we can avoid scanning for unmapped pages if there are none. Also it may now be possible to determine the mapped/unmapped ratio in get_dirty_limit. Isnt the number of anonymous pages irrelevant in that calculation? Note that this will change the meaning of the number of mapped pages reported in /proc/vmstat /proc/meminfo and in the per node statistics. This may affect user space tools that monitor these counters! NR_FILE_MAPPED works like NR_FILE_DIRTY. It is only valid for pagecache pages. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_pagecache to per zone counter

2006-06-30T18:25:34+00:00

Currently a single atomic variable is used to establish the size of the page cache in the whole machine. The zoned VM counters have the same method of implementation as the nr_pagecache code but also allow the determination of the pagecache size per zone. Remove the special implementation for nr_pagecache and make it a zoned counter named NR_FILE_PAGES. Updates of the page cache counters are always performed with interrupts off. We can therefore use the __ variant here. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds