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| author | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2018-07-06 09:08:06 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2018-07-06 18:48:58 +0200 |
| commit | cc9aec03e58fea4dbab04c05d1e15852f801ca53 (patch) | |
| tree | e645e6f037acef6bf72147b24d1eae88e03dbdf8 /Documentation | |
| parent | 3b6c62f363a19ce82bf378187ab97c9dc01e3927 (diff) | |
x86/numa_emulation: Introduce uniform split capability
The current NUMA emulation capabilities for splitting System RAM by a
fixed size or by a set number of nodes may result in some nodes being
larger than others. The implementation prioritizes establishing a
minimum usable memory size over satisfying the requested number of NUMA
nodes.
Introduce a uniform split capability that evenly partitions each
physical NUMA node into N emulated nodes. For example numa=fake=3U
creates 6 emulated nodes total on a system that has 2 physical nodes.
This capability is useful for debugging and evaluating platform
memory-side-cache capabilities as described by the ACPI HMAT (see
5.2.27.5 Memory Side Cache Information Structure in ACPI 6.2a)
Compare numa=fake=6 that results in only 5 nodes being created against
numa=fake=3U which takes the 2 physical nodes and evenly divides them.
numa=fake=6
available: 5 nodes (0-4)
node 0 cpus: 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38
node 0 size: 2648 MB
node 0 free: 2443 MB
node 1 cpus: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39
node 1 size: 2672 MB
node 1 free: 2442 MB
node 2 cpus: 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38
node 2 size: 5291 MB
node 2 free: 5278 MB
node 3 cpus: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39
node 3 size: 2677 MB
node 3 free: 2665 MB
node 4 cpus: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39
node 4 size: 2676 MB
node 4 free: 2663 MB
node distances:
node 0 1 2 3 4
0: 10 20 10 20 20
1: 20 10 20 10 10
2: 10 20 10 20 20
3: 20 10 20 10 10
4: 20 10 20 10 10
numa=fake=3U
available: 6 nodes (0-5)
node 0 cpus: 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38
node 0 size: 2900 MB
node 0 free: 2637 MB
node 1 cpus: 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38
node 1 size: 3023 MB
node 1 free: 3012 MB
node 2 cpus: 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38
node 2 size: 2015 MB
node 2 free: 2004 MB
node 3 cpus: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39
node 3 size: 2704 MB
node 3 free: 2522 MB
node 4 cpus: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39
node 4 size: 2709 MB
node 4 free: 2698 MB
node 5 cpus: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39
node 5 size: 2612 MB
node 5 free: 2601 MB
node distances:
node 0 1 2 3 4 5
0: 10 10 10 20 20 20
1: 10 10 10 20 20 20
2: 10 10 10 20 20 20
3: 20 20 20 10 10 10
4: 20 20 20 10 10 10
5: 20 20 20 10 10 10
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153089328617.27680.14930758266174305832.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt index 8d109ef67ab6..3a2ba436721a 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt @@ -156,6 +156,10 @@ NUMA If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N fake nodes interleaved over physical nodes. + numa=fake=<N>U + If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will divide each + physical node into N emulated nodes. + ACPI acpi=off Don't enable ACPI |