David Miller a écrit :
From: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 20:07:11 +0200

Maybe David has an idea how this can be done properly ?

ref : http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=117706074825048&w=2

You need to use __GFP_COMP or similar to make this splitting+freeing
thing work.

Otherwise the individual pages don't have page references, only
the head page of the high-order page will.


Oh thanks David for the hint.

I added a split_page() call and it seems to work now.


[PATCH] MM : alloc_large_system_hash() can free some memory for non power-of-two bucketsize

alloc_large_system_hash() is called at boot time to allocate space for several large hash tables.

Lately, TCP hash table was changed and its bucketsize is not a power-of-two anymore.

On most setups, alloc_large_system_hash() allocates one big page (order > 0) with __get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, order). This single high_order page has a power-of-two size, bigger than the needed size.

We can free all pages that wont be used by the hash table.

On a 1GB i386 machine, this patch saves 128 KB of LOWMEM memory.

TCP established hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 393216 bytes)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index ae96dd8..7c219eb 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3350,6 +3350,21 @@ void *__init alloc_large_system_hash(const char 
*tablename,
                        for (order = 0; ((1UL << order) << PAGE_SHIFT) < size; 
order++)
                                ;
                        table = (void*) __get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, order);
+                       /*
+                        * If bucketsize is not a power-of-two, we may free
+                        * some pages at the end of hash table.
+                        */
+                       if (table) {
+                               unsigned long alloc_end = (unsigned long)table +
+                                               (PAGE_SIZE << order);
+                               unsigned long used = (unsigned long)table +
+                                               PAGE_ALIGN(size);
+                               split_page(virt_to_page(table), order);
+                               while (used < alloc_end) {
+                                       free_page(used);
+                                       used += PAGE_SIZE;
+                               }
+                       }
                }
        } while (!table && size > PAGE_SIZE && --log2qty);
 

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