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Christoph Lameter e20b8cca76 PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED and separate page flags for Head and Tail 
Having separate page flags for the head and the tail of a compound page allows
the compiler to use bitops instead of operations on a word to check for a tail
page.  That is f.e.  important for virt_to_head_page() which is used in
various critical code paths (kfree for example):

Code for PageTail(page)

Before:

 mov    (%rdi),%rdx		page->flags
 mov    %rdx,%rax		3 bytes
 and    $0x12000,%eax		5 bytes
 cmp    $0x12000,%rax		6 bytes
 je     897 <kfree+0xa7>

After:

 mov    (%rdi),%rax
 test   $0x40,%ah			(3 bytes)
 jne    887 <kfree+0x97>

So we go from 14 bytes to 3 bytes and from 3 instructions to one.  From the
use of 2 registers we go to none.

We can only use page flags for this if we have page flags available.  This
patch introduces CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED that is set if pageflags are not
scarce due to SPARSEMEM using page flags for its sectionid on 32 bit NUMA
platforms.

Additional page flag definitions can be added to the CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
section in page-flags.h if the functionality depends on PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED or
if more page flag overlapping tricks are used for the !PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
fallback (the upcoming virtual compound patch may hook in here and Rik's/Lee's
additional page flags to solve the reclaim issues could also be added there
[hint...  hint...  where are these patchsets?]).

Avoiding the overlaying of Pg_reclaim also clears the way for possible use of
compound pages for the pagecache or on the LRU.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:22 -07:00

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config SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
def_bool y
depends on EXPERIMENTAL || ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
choice
prompt "Memory model"
depends on SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
default DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT
default SPARSEMEM_MANUAL if ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
default FLATMEM_MANUAL
config FLATMEM_MANUAL
bool "Flat Memory"
depends on !(ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE || ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE) || ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
help
This option allows you to change some of the ways that
Linux manages its memory internally. Most users will
only have one option here: FLATMEM. This is normal
and a correct option.
Some users of more advanced features like NUMA and
memory hotplug may have different options here.
DISCONTIGMEM is an more mature, better tested system,
but is incompatible with memory hotplug and may suffer
decreased performance over SPARSEMEM. If unsure between
"Sparse Memory" and "Discontiguous Memory", choose
"Discontiguous Memory".
If unsure, choose this option (Flat Memory) over any other.
config DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
bool "Discontiguous Memory"
depends on ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
help
This option provides enhanced support for discontiguous
memory systems, over FLATMEM. These systems have holes
in their physical address spaces, and this option provides
more efficient handling of these holes. However, the vast
majority of hardware has quite flat address spaces, and
can have degraded performance from the extra overhead that
this option imposes.
Many NUMA configurations will have this as the only option.
If unsure, choose "Flat Memory" over this option.
config SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
bool "Sparse Memory"
depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
help
This will be the only option for some systems, including
memory hotplug systems. This is normal.
For many other systems, this will be an alternative to
"Discontiguous Memory". This option provides some potential
performance benefits, along with decreased code complexity,
but it is newer, and more experimental.
If unsure, choose "Discontiguous Memory" or "Flat Memory"
over this option.
endchoice
config DISCONTIGMEM
def_bool y
depends on (!SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE) || DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL
config SPARSEMEM
def_bool y
depends on SPARSEMEM_MANUAL
config FLATMEM
def_bool y
depends on (!DISCONTIGMEM && !SPARSEMEM) || FLATMEM_MANUAL
config FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP
def_bool y
depends on !SPARSEMEM
#
# Both the NUMA code and DISCONTIGMEM use arrays of pg_data_t's
# to represent different areas of memory. This variable allows
# those dependencies to exist individually.
#
config NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
def_bool y
depends on DISCONTIGMEM || NUMA
config HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT
def_bool y
depends on ARCH_HAVE_MEMORY_PRESENT || SPARSEMEM
#
# SPARSEMEM_EXTREME (which is the default) does some bootmem
# allocations when memory_present() is called. If this cannot
# be done on your architecture, select this option. However,
# statically allocating the mem_section[] array can potentially
# consume vast quantities of .bss, so be careful.
#
# This option will also potentially produce smaller runtime code
# with gcc 3.4 and later.
#
config SPARSEMEM_STATIC
def_bool n
#
# Architecture platforms which require a two level mem_section in SPARSEMEM
# must select this option. This is usually for architecture platforms with
# an extremely sparse physical address space.
#
config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
def_bool y
depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC
config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
def_bool n
config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap"
depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
default y
help
SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise
pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most
efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available.
# eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
bool "Allow for memory hot-add"
depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
depends on HOTPLUG && !HIBERNATION && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
depends on (IA64 || X86 || PPC64 || SUPERH)
comment "Memory hotplug is currently incompatible with Software Suspend"
depends on SPARSEMEM && HOTPLUG && HIBERNATION
config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
def_bool y
depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
depends on MIGRATION
#
# If we have space for more page flags then we can enable additional
# optimizations and functionality.
#
# Regular Sparsemem takes page flag bits for the sectionid if it does not
# use a virtual memmap. Disable extended page flags for 32 bit platforms
# that require the use of a sectionid in the page flags.
#
config PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED
def_bool y
depends on 64BIT || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP || !NUMA || !SPARSEMEM
# Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide
# page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address
# space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS.
# Default to 4 for wider testing, though 8 might be more appropriate.
# ARM's adjust_pte (unused if VIPT) depends on mm-wide page_table_lock.
# PA-RISC 7xxx's spinlock_t would enlarge struct page from 32 to 44 bytes.
#
config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
int
default "4096" if ARM && !CPU_CACHE_VIPT
default "4096" if PARISC && !PA20
default "4"
#
# support for page migration
#
config MIGRATION
bool "Page migration"
def_bool y
depends on NUMA
help
Allows the migration of the physical location of pages of processes
while the virtual addresses are not changed. This is useful for
example on NUMA systems to put pages nearer to the processors accessing
the page.
config RESOURCES_64BIT
bool "64 bit Memory and IO resources (EXPERIMENTAL)" if (!64BIT && EXPERIMENTAL)
default 64BIT
help
This option allows memory and IO resources to be 64 bit.
config ZONE_DMA_FLAG
int
default "0" if !ZONE_DMA
default "1"
config BOUNCE
def_bool y
depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
config NR_QUICK
int
depends on QUICKLIST
default "2" if SUPERH
default "1"
config VIRT_TO_BUS
def_bool y
depends on !ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS
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