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Christoph Lameter
cde5353599 Christoph has moved
Remove all clameter@sgi.com addresses from the kernel tree since they will
become invalid on June 27th.  Change my maintainer email address for the
slab allocators to cl@linux-foundation.org (which will be the new email
address for the future).

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04 10:40:04 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
f715e6f15e slabinfo: Support printout of the number of fallbacks
Add functionality to slabinfo to print out the number of fallbacks
that have occurred for each slab cache when the -D option is specified.
Also widen the allocation / free field since the numbers became
too big after a week.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-05-02 00:26:51 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
205ab99dd1 slub: Update statistics handling for variable order slabs
Change the statistics to consider that slabs of the same slabcache
can have different number of objects in them since they may be of
different order.

Provide a new sysfs field

	total_objects

which shows the total objects that the allocated slabs of a slabcache
could hold.

Add a max field that holds the largest slab order that was ever used
for a slab cache.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-04-27 18:28:17 +03:00
Christoph Lameter
b6c24de77c slabinfo: fall back from /sys/kernel/slab to /sys/slab
I keep running upstream and mm kernels and the location of the slab
directory is different since upstream still uses /sys/slab.  This patch
makes slabinfo check /sys/slab if /sys/kernel/slab is not there.  Makes
slabinfo work on any kernel.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-02-21 15:27:06 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
8ff12cfc00 SLUB: Support for performance statistics
The statistics provided here allow the monitoring of allocator behavior but
at the cost of some (minimal) loss of performance. Counters are placed in
SLUB's per cpu data structure. The per cpu structure may be extended by the
statistics to grow larger than one cacheline which will increase the cache
footprint of SLUB.

There is a compile option to enable/disable the inclusion of the runtime
statistics and its off by default.

The slabinfo tool is enhanced to support these statistics via two options:

-D 	Switches the line of information displayed for a slab from size
	mode to activity mode.

-A	Sorts the slabs displayed by activity. This allows the display of
	the slabs most important to the performance of a certain load.

-r	Report option will report detailed statistics on

Example (tbench load):

slabinfo -AD		->Shows the most active slabs

Name                   Objects    Alloc     Free   %Fast
skbuff_fclone_cache         33 111953835 111953835  99  99
:0000192                  2666  5283688  5281047  99  99
:0001024                   849  5247230  5246389  83  83
vm_area_struct            1349   119642   118355  91  22
:0004096                    15    66753    66751  98  98
:0000064                  2067    25297    23383  98  78
dentry                   10259    28635    18464  91  45
:0000080                 11004    18950     8089  98  98
:0000096                  1703    12358    10784  99  98
:0000128                   762    10582     9875  94  18
:0000512                   184     9807     9647  95  81
:0002048                   479     9669     9195  83  65
anon_vma                   777     9461     9002  99  71
kmalloc-8                 6492     9981     5624  99  97
:0000768                   258     7174     6931  58  15

So the skbuff_fclone_cache is of highest importance for the tbench load.
Pretty high load on the 192 sized slab. Look for the aliases

slabinfo -a | grep 000192
:0000192     <- xfs_btree_cur filp kmalloc-192 uid_cache tw_sock_TCP
	request_sock_TCPv6 tw_sock_TCPv6 skbuff_head_cache xfs_ili

Likely skbuff_head_cache.


Looking into the statistics of the skbuff_fclone_cache is possible through

slabinfo skbuff_fclone_cache	->-r option implied if cache name is mentioned


.... Usual output ...

Slab Perf Counter       Alloc     Free %Al %Fr
--------------------------------------------------
Fastpath             111953360 111946981  99  99
Slowpath                 1044     7423   0   0
Page Alloc                272      264   0   0
Add partial                25      325   0   0
Remove partial             86      264   0   0
RemoteObj/SlabFrozen      350     4832   0   0
Total                111954404 111954404

Flushes       49 Refill        0
Deactivate Full=325(92%) Empty=0(0%) ToHead=24(6%) ToTail=1(0%)

Looks good because the fastpath is overwhelmingly taken.


skbuff_head_cache:

Slab Perf Counter       Alloc     Free %Al %Fr
--------------------------------------------------
Fastpath              5297262  5259882  99  99
Slowpath                 4477    39586   0   0
Page Alloc                937      824   0   0
Add partial                 0     2515   0   0
Remove partial           1691      824   0   0
RemoteObj/SlabFrozen     2621     9684   0   0
Total                 5301739  5299468

Deactivate Full=2620(100%) Empty=0(0%) ToHead=0(0%) ToTail=0(0%)


Descriptions of the output:

Total:		The total number of allocation and frees that occurred for a
		slab

Fastpath:	The number of allocations/frees that used the fastpath.

Slowpath:	Other allocations

Page Alloc:	Number of calls to the page allocator as a result of slowpath
		processing

Add Partial:	Number of slabs added to the partial list through free or
		alloc (occurs during cpuslab flushes)

Remove Partial:	Number of slabs removed from the partial list as a result of
		allocations retrieving a partial slab or by a free freeing
		the last object of a slab.

RemoteObj/Froz:	How many times were remotely freed object encountered when a
		slab was about to be deactivated. Frozen: How many times was
		free able to skip list processing because the slab was in use
		as the cpuslab of another processor.

Flushes:	Number of times the cpuslab was flushed on request
		(kmem_cache_shrink, may result from races in __slab_alloc)

Refill:		Number of times we were able to refill the cpuslab from
		remotely freed objects for the same slab.

Deactivate:	Statistics how slabs were deactivated. Shows how they were
		put onto the partial list.

In general fastpath is very good. Slowpath without partial list processing is
also desirable. Any touching of partial list uses node specific locks which
may potentially cause list lock contention.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
2008-02-07 17:47:41 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
081248de0a kset: move /sys/slab to /sys/kernel/slab
/sys/kernel is where these things should go.
Also updated the documentation and tool that used this directory.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:16 -08:00
WANG Cong
f32143a2fe Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c: clean up this code
This patch does the following cleanups for Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c:

	- Fix two memory leaks;
	- Constify some char pointers;
	- Use snprintf instead of sprintf in case of buffer overflow;
	- Fix some indentations;
	- Other little improvements.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:06 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
ac07860264 SLUB: Fix format specifier in Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c
There's a little problem in Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c
The code is using "%d" in a printf() call to print an 'unsigned long'.
This patch corrects it to use "%lu" instead.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
2007-08-09 21:57:16 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
32f9306b16 slub: another slabinfo fix
The slab manipulation functions should not be triggered by slabs that
are unresovable in the subset of slabs selected on the command line.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-18 08:17:17 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
eefaca9c32 SLUB: slabinfo fixes
Align the output of % with K/M/G of sizes.

Check for empty NUMA information to avoid segfault on !NUMA.

-r should work directly not only if we match a single slab
   without additional options.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-17 05:23:03 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
a87615b8f9 SLUB: slabinfo upgrade
-e Show empty slabs
-d Modification of slab debug options at runtime
-o Operations. Display of ctor / dtor etc.
-r Report: Display all available information about a slabcache.

Cleanup tracking display and make it work right.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:44 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
c09d875172 slub: add slabinfo tool
Add the tool which gets reports about slabs to the VM documentation directory.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:54 -07:00