Le 06/09/2012 12:19, Gabriele Fatigati a écrit :
> I did't find any strange number in /proc/meminfo.
>
> I've noted that the program fails exactly
> every 65479 hwloc_set_area_membind. So It sounds like some kernel
> limit. You can check that also just one thread.
>
> Maybe never has not noted them because usually we bind a large amount
> of contiguos memory few times, instead of small and non contiguos
> pieces of memory many and many times.. :(
If you have root access, try (as root)
watch -n 1 grep numa_policy /proc/slabinfo
Put a sleep(10) in your program when set_area_membind() fails, and don't
let your program exit before you can read the content of /proc/slabinfo.
Brice
>
> 2012/9/6 Brice Goglin <brice.gog...@inria.fr
> <mailto:brice.gog...@inria.fr>>
>
> Le 06/09/2012 10:44, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> > Gabriele Fatigati, le Thu 06 Sep 2012 10:12:38 +0200, a écrit :
> >> mbind hwloc_linux_set_area_membind() fails:
> >>
> >> Error from HWLOC mbind: Cannot allocate memory
> > Ok. mbind is not really supposed to allocate much memory, but it
> still
> > does allocate some, to record the policy
> >
> >> // hwloc_obj_t obj = hwloc_get_obj_by_type(topology,
> HWLOC_OBJ_NODE, tid);
> >> hwloc_obj_t obj = hwloc_get_obj_by_type(topology,
> HWLOC_OBJ_PU, tid);
> >> hwloc_cpuset_t cpuset = hwloc_bitmap_dup(obj->cpuset);
> >> hwloc_bitmap_singlify(cpuset);
> >> hwloc_set_cpubind(topology, cpuset, HWLOC_CPUBIND_THREAD);
> >>
> >> for( i = chunk*tid; i < len; i+=PAGE_SIZE) {
> >> // res = hwloc_set_area_membind_nodeset(topology,
> &array[i], PAGE_SIZE, obj->nodeset, HWLOC_MEMBIND_BIND,
> HWLOC_MEMBIND_THREAD);
> >> res = hwloc_set_area_membind(topology, &array[i],
> PAGE_SIZE, cpuset, HWLOC_MEMBIND_BIND, HWLOC_MEMBIND_THREAD);
> > and I'm afraid that calling set_area_membind for each page might
> be too
> > dense: the kernel is probably allocating a memory policy record
> for each
> > page, not being able to merge adjacent equal policies.
> >
>
> It's supposed to merge VMA with same policies (from what I
> understand in
> the code), but I don't know if that actually works.
> Maybe Gabriele found a kernel bug :)
>
> Brice
>
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