[PATCH] Get rid of zone_table[]

The zone table is mostly not needed.  If we have a node in the page flags
then we can get to the zone via NODE_DATA() which is much more likely to be
already in the cpu cache.

In case of SMP and UP NODE_DATA() is a constant pointer which allows us to
access an exact replica of zonetable in the node_zones field.  In all of
the above cases there will be no need at all for the zone table.

The only remaining case is if in a NUMA system the node numbers do not fit
into the page flags.  In that case we make sparse generate a table that
maps sections to nodes and use that table to to figure out the node number.
 This table is sized to fit in a single cache line for the known 32 bit
NUMA platform which makes it very likely that the information can be
obtained without a cache miss.

For sparsemem the zone table seems to be have been fairly large based on
the maximum possible number of sections and the number of zones per node.
There is some memory saving by removing zone_table.  The main benefit is to
reduce the cache foootprint of the VM from the frequent lookups of zones.
Plus it simplifies the page allocator.

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index d538de901965..ab6e4974f379 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -396,7 +396,9 @@ void split_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
  * We are going to use the flags for the page to node mapping if its in
  * there.  This includes the case where there is no node, so it is implicit.
  */
-#define FLAGS_HAS_NODE          (NODES_WIDTH > 0 || NODES_SHIFT == 0)
+#if !(NODES_WIDTH > 0 || NODES_SHIFT == 0)
+#define NODE_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS
+#endif
 
 #ifndef PFN_SECTION_SHIFT
 #define PFN_SECTION_SHIFT 0
@@ -411,13 +413,18 @@ void split_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
 #define NODES_PGSHIFT           (NODES_PGOFF * (NODES_WIDTH != 0))
 #define ZONES_PGSHIFT           (ZONES_PGOFF * (ZONES_WIDTH != 0))
 
-/* NODE:ZONE or SECTION:ZONE is used to lookup the zone from a page. */
-#if FLAGS_HAS_NODE
-#define ZONETABLE_SHIFT         (NODES_SHIFT + ZONES_SHIFT)
+/* NODE:ZONE or SECTION:ZONE is used to ID a zone for the buddy allcator */
+#ifdef NODE_NOT_IN_PAGEFLAGS
+#define ZONEID_SHIFT            (SECTIONS_SHIFT + ZONES_SHIFT)
 #else
-#define ZONETABLE_SHIFT         (SECTIONS_SHIFT + ZONES_SHIFT)
+#define ZONEID_SHIFT            (NODES_SHIFT + ZONES_SHIFT)
+#endif
+
+#if ZONES_WIDTH > 0
+#define ZONEID_PGSHIFT          ZONES_PGSHIFT
+#else
+#define ZONEID_PGSHIFT          NODES_PGOFF
 #endif
-#define ZONETABLE_PGSHIFT       ZONES_PGSHIFT
 
 #if SECTIONS_WIDTH+NODES_WIDTH+ZONES_WIDTH > FLAGS_RESERVED
 #error SECTIONS_WIDTH+NODES_WIDTH+ZONES_WIDTH > FLAGS_RESERVED
@@ -426,23 +433,25 @@ void split_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
 #define ZONES_MASK              ((1UL << ZONES_WIDTH) - 1)
 #define NODES_MASK              ((1UL << NODES_WIDTH) - 1)
 #define SECTIONS_MASK           ((1UL << SECTIONS_WIDTH) - 1)
-#define ZONETABLE_MASK          ((1UL << ZONETABLE_SHIFT) - 1)
+#define ZONEID_MASK             ((1UL << ZONEID_SHIFT) - 1)
 
 static inline enum zone_type page_zonenum(struct page *page)
 {
         return (page->flags >> ZONES_PGSHIFT) & ZONES_MASK;
 }
 
-struct zone;
-extern struct zone *zone_table[];
-
+/*
+ * The identification function is only used by the buddy allocator for
+ * determining if two pages could be buddies. We are not really
+ * identifying a zone since we could be using a the section number
+ * id if we have not node id available in page flags.
+ * We guarantee only that it will return the same value for two
+ * combinable pages in a zone.
+ */
 static inline int page_zone_id(struct page *page)
 {
-        return (page->flags >> ZONETABLE_PGSHIFT) & ZONETABLE_MASK;
-}
-static inline struct zone *page_zone(struct page *page)
-{
-        return zone_table[page_zone_id(page)];
+        BUILD_BUG_ON(ZONEID_PGSHIFT == 0 && ZONEID_MASK);
+        return (page->flags >> ZONEID_PGSHIFT) & ZONEID_MASK;
 }
 
 static inline unsigned long zone_to_nid(struct zone *zone)
@@ -454,13 +463,20 @@ static inline unsigned long zone_to_nid(struct zone *zone)
 #endif
 }
 
+#ifdef NODE_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS
+extern unsigned long page_to_nid(struct page *page);
+#else
 static inline unsigned long page_to_nid(struct page *page)
 {
-        if (FLAGS_HAS_NODE)
-                return (page->flags >> NODES_PGSHIFT) & NODES_MASK;
-        else
-                return zone_to_nid(page_zone(page));
+        return (page->flags >> NODES_PGSHIFT) & NODES_MASK;
 }
+#endif
+
+static inline struct zone *page_zone(struct page *page)
+{
+        return &NODE_DATA(page_to_nid(page))->node_zones[page_zonenum(page)];
+}
+
 static inline unsigned long page_to_section(struct page *page)
 {
         return (page->flags >> SECTIONS_PGSHIFT) & SECTIONS_MASK;
@@ -477,6 +493,7 @@ static inline void set_page_node(struct page *page, unsigned long node)
         page->flags &= ~(NODES_MASK << NODES_PGSHIFT);
         page->flags |= (node & NODES_MASK) << NODES_PGSHIFT;
 }
+
 static inline void set_page_section(struct page *page, unsigned long section)
 {
         page->flags &= ~(SECTIONS_MASK << SECTIONS_PGSHIFT);
@@ -947,8 +964,6 @@ extern void mem_init(void);
 extern void show_mem(void);
 extern void si_meminfo(struct sysinfo * val);
 extern void si_meminfo_node(struct sysinfo *val, int nid);
-extern void zonetable_add(struct zone *zone, int nid, enum zone_type zid,
-                                        unsigned long pfn, unsigned long size);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 extern void setup_per_cpu_pageset(void);