1. 04 Aug, 2015 1 commit
    • Michael Holzheu's avatar
      s390/numa: add emulation support · c29a7baf
      Michael Holzheu authored
      NUMA emulation (aka fake NUMA) distributes the available memory to nodes
      without using real topology information about the physical memory of the
      machine.
      
      Splitting the system memory into nodes replicates the memory management
      structures for each node. Particularly each node has its own "mm locks"
      and its own "kswapd" task.
      
      For large systems, under certain conditions, this results in improved
      system performance and/or latency based on reduced pressure on the mm
      locks and the kswapd tasks.
      
      NUMA emulation distributes CPUs to nodes while respecting the original
      machine topology information. This is done by trying to avoid to separate
      CPUs which reside on the same book or even on the same MC. Because the
      current Linux scheduler code requires a stable cpu to node mapping, cores
      are pinned to nodes when the first CPU thread is set online.
      
      This patch is based on the initial implementation from Philipp Hachtmann.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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