[Apologies for the large Cc list, but I believe we have the following
interested parties:
x86 (recently posted memoryless node support)
ia64 (existing memoryless node support)
ppc (existing memoryless node support)
previous discussion of how to solve Anton's issue with slab usage
workqueue contributors/maintainers]
There is an issue currently where NUMA information is used on powerpc
(and possibly ia64) before it has been read from the device-tree, which
leads to large slab consumption with CONFIG_SLUB and memoryless nodes.
While testing memoryless nodes on PowerKVM guests with the patches in
this series, with a guest topology of
available: 2 nodes (0-1)
node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49
node 0 size: 0 MB
node 0 free: 0 MB
node 1 cpus: 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99
node 1 size: 16336 MB
node 1 free: 15329 MB
node distances:
node 0 1
0: 10 40
1: 40 10
the slab consumption decreases from
Slab: 932416 kB
SUnreclaim: 902336 kB
to
Slab: 395264 kB
SUnreclaim: 359424 kB
And we see a corresponding increase in the slab efficiency from
slab mem objs slabs
used active active
------------------------------------------------------------
kmalloc-16384 337 MB 11.28% 100.00%
task_struct 288 MB 9.93% 100.00%
to
slab mem objs slabs
used active active
------------------------------------------------------------
kmalloc-16384 37 MB 100.00% 100.00%
task_struct 31 MB 100.00% 100.00%
It turns out we see this large slab usage due to using the wrong NUMA
information when creating kthreads.
Two changes are required, one of which is in the workqueue code and one
of which is in the powerpc initialization. Note that ia64 may want to
consider something similar.
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