linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/powerpc
Anton Blanchard 8bbde7a706 powerpc: Move 64bit heap above 1TB on machines with 1TB segments
If we are using 1TB segments and we are allowed to randomise the heap, we can
put it above 1TB so it is backed by a 1TB segment. Otherwise the heap will be
in the bottom 1TB which always uses 256MB segments and this may result in a
performance penalty.

This functionality is disabled when heap randomisation is turned off:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space

which may be useful when trying to allocate the maximum amount of 16M or 16G
pages.

On a microbenchmark that repeatedly touches 32GB of memory with a stride of
256MB + 4kB (designed to stress 256MB segments while still mapping nicely into
the L1 cache), we see the improvement:

Force malloc to use heap all the time:
# export MALLOC_MMAP_MAX_=0 MALLOC_TRIM_THRESHOLD_=-1

Disable heap randomization:
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
# time ./test
12.51s

Enable heap randomization:
# echo 2 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
# time ./test
1.70s

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-09-24 15:31:44 +10:00
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boot Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next 2009-09-23 15:37:02 -07:00
configs Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2009-09-15 09:51:09 -07:00
include/asm powerpc: Change archdata dma_data to a union 2009-09-24 15:31:43 +10:00
kernel powerpc: Move 64bit heap above 1TB on machines with 1TB segments 2009-09-24 15:31:44 +10:00
kvm Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2009-09-15 09:51:09 -07:00
lib powerpc: Add configurable -Werror for arch/powerpc 2009-06-16 14:15:45 +10:00
math-emu powerpc/math-emu: Fix efp dependence 2009-03-11 06:00:08 -05:00
mm powerpc/mm: Remove duplicated #include 2009-09-24 15:31:42 +10:00
oprofile powerpc: Remove unnecessary semicolons 2009-07-08 13:50:21 +10:00
platforms powerpc: Change archdata dma_data to a union 2009-09-24 15:31:43 +10:00
sysdev powerpc: Change archdata dma_data to a union 2009-09-24 15:31:43 +10:00
xmon powerpc: Enable GCOV 2009-08-20 10:29:28 +10:00
Kconfig perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
Kconfig.debug powerpc: Add configurable -Werror for arch/powerpc 2009-06-16 14:15:45 +10:00
Makefile powerpc: Check for unsupported relocs when using CONFIG_RELOCATABLE 2009-09-24 15:31:40 +10:00
relocs_check.pl powerpc: Check for unsupported relocs when using CONFIG_RELOCATABLE 2009-09-24 15:31:40 +10:00