Ravikiran G Thirumalai <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 12:16:02PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Ravikiran G Thirumalai <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > which can be assumed as not frequent.
> > > At sk_stream_mem_schedule(), read_sockets_allocated() is invoked only
> > > certain conditions, under memory pressure -- on a large CPU count machine,
> > > you'd have large memory, and I don't think read_sockets_allocated would get
> > > called often. It did not atleast on our 8cpu/16G box. So this should be OK
> > > I think.
> >
> > That being said, the percpu_counters aren't a terribly successful concept
> > and probably do need a revisit due to the high inaccuracy at high CPU
> > counts. It might be better to do some generic version of vm_acct_memory()
> > instead.
>
> AFAICS vm_acct_memory is no better. The deviation on large cpu counts is the
> same as percpu_counters -- (NR_CPUS * NR_CPUS * 2) ...
I suppose so. Except vm_acct_memory() has
#define ACCT_THRESHOLD max(16, NR_CPUS * 2)
But if we were to perform similar tuning to percpu_counter, yes, they're
pretty similar.
Oh, and because vm_acct_memory() is counting a singleton object, it can use
DEFINE_PER_CPU rather than alloc_percpu(), so it saves on a bit of kmalloc
overhead.
> >
> > If the benchmarks say that we need to. If we cannot observe any problems
> > in testing of existing code and if we can't demonstrate any benefit from
> > the patched code then one option is to go off and do something else ;)
>
> We first tried plain per-CPU counters for memory_allocated, found that reads
> on memory_allocated was causing cacheline transfers, and then
> switched over to batching. So batching reads is useful. To avoid
> inaccuracy, we can maybe change percpu_counter_init to:
>
> void percpu_counter_init(struct percpu_counter *fbc, int maxdev)
>
> the percpu batching limit would then be maxdev/num_possible_cpus. One would
> use batching counters only when both reads and writes are frequent. With
> the above scheme, we would go fetch cachelines from other cpus for read
> often only on large cpu counts, which is not any worse than the global
> counter alternative, but it would still be beneficial on smaller machines,
> without sacrificing a pre-set deviation.
>
> Comments?
Sounds sane.
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