Make sure that only those nodes appear in the node_possible_map that
may actually be used. Usually that means that the node online and
possible maps are identical. For mode "plain" we only have one node,
for mode "emu" we have "emu_nodes" nodes.
Before this the possible map included (with default config) 16 nodes
while usually only one was used. That made a couple of loops that
iterated over all possible nodes do more work than necessary.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The z13 machine added a fourth level to the cpu topology
information. The new top level is called drawer.
A drawer contains two books, which used to be the top level.
Adding this additional scheduling domain did show performance
improvements for some workloads of up to 8%, while there don't
seem to be any workloads impacted in a negative way.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
With CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y cpumask_var_t is a pointer to a CPU mask.
Replace the incorrect type for node_to_cpumask_map with cpumask_t.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The core to node mapping data consumes about 2 KB bss data. To save memory
for the non-NUMA case, make the data dynamic. In addition change the
"core_to_node" array from "int" to "s32" which saves 1 KB also for the
NUMA case.
Suggested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Since we are already protected by the "sched_domains_mutex" lock, we can
safely remove the topology lock.
Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
NUMA emulation (aka fake NUMA) distributes the available memory to nodes
without using real topology information about the physical memory of the
machine.
Splitting the system memory into nodes replicates the memory management
structures for each node. Particularly each node has its own "mm locks"
and its own "kswapd" task.
For large systems, under certain conditions, this results in improved
system performance and/or latency based on reduced pressure on the mm
locks and the kswapd tasks.
NUMA emulation distributes CPUs to nodes while respecting the original
machine topology information. This is done by trying to avoid to separate
CPUs which reside on the same book or even on the same MC. Because the
current Linux scheduler code requires a stable cpu to node mapping, cores
are pinned to nodes when the first CPU thread is set online.
This patch is based on the initial implementation from Philipp Hachtmann.
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Heiko Carstens