linux/include
Christoph Lameter 89689ae7f9 [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>
2006-12-07 08:39:20 -08:00
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acpi ACPI: Change ACPI to use dev_archdata instead of firmware_data 2006-12-01 14:52:01 -08:00
asm-alpha [NET]: Alpha checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:01 -08:00
asm-arm WorkQueue: Fix up arch-specific work items where possible 2006-12-05 19:36:26 +00:00
asm-arm26 [NET]: ARM26 checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:16 -08:00
asm-avr32 [PATCH] Centralise definitions of sector_t and blkcnt_t 2006-12-04 19:41:15 -08:00
asm-cris [NET]: Cris checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:02 -08:00
asm-frv [NET]: FRV checksum annotations. 2006-12-02 21:23:03 -08:00
asm-generic Driver core: add dev_archdata to struct device 2006-12-01 14:52:01 -08:00
asm-h8300 [PATCH] Centralise definitions of sector_t and blkcnt_t 2006-12-04 19:41:15 -08:00
asm-i386 x86[-64]:Remove 'volatile' from atomic_t 2006-12-06 14:42:57 -08:00
asm-ia64 [NET]: IA64 checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:05 -08:00
asm-m32r [NET]: M32R checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:06 -08:00
asm-m68k [NET]: M68K checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:07 -08:00
asm-m68knommu [PATCH] m68knommu: remove FP conditionals in ucontext struct 2006-12-06 07:41:26 -08:00
asm-mips [MIPS] Import updates from i386's i8259.c 2006-12-06 20:16:09 +00:00
asm-parisc [NET]: PARISC checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:10 -08:00
asm-powerpc [PATCH] Centralise definitions of sector_t and blkcnt_t 2006-12-04 19:41:15 -08:00
asm-ppc [POWERPC] ppc: m48t35 add missing bracket 2006-12-04 20:42:04 +11:00
asm-s390 [PATCH] Centralise definitions of sector_t and blkcnt_t 2006-12-04 19:41:15 -08:00
asm-sh sh: sh775x/titan fixes for irq header changes. 2006-12-06 12:05:02 +09:00
asm-sh64 [NET]: SH64 checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:11 -08:00
asm-sparc [NET]: SPARC checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:22 -08:00
asm-sparc64 [NET]: SPARC64 checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:23 -08:00
asm-um Driver core: add dev_archdata to struct device 2006-12-01 14:52:01 -08:00
asm-v850 [NET]: V850 checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:13 -08:00
asm-x86_64 x86[-64]:Remove 'volatile' from atomic_t 2006-12-06 14:42:57 -08:00
asm-xtensa [NET]: XTENSA checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:24 -08:00
crypto [CRYPTO] digest: Added user API for new hash type 2006-09-21 11:46:17 +10:00
keys [PATCH] keys: discard the contents of a key on revocation 2006-06-26 09:58:18 -07:00
linux [PATCH] Get rid of zone_table[] 2006-12-07 08:39:20 -08:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (4666): Ensure the WM8775 driver is loaded generically for any board. 2006-10-03 15:13:48 -03:00
mtd Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2006-10-01 17:55:53 +01:00
net Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2006-12-05 17:01:28 +00:00
pcmcia [PATCH] pcmcia: multifunction card handling fixes 2006-12-04 20:09:15 -05:00
rdma IB/cm: Fix automatic path migration support 2006-11-29 15:33:10 -08:00
rxrpc
scsi Actually update the fixed up compile failures. 2006-12-06 15:02:26 +00:00
sound Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2006-12-05 17:01:28 +00:00
video fix file specification in comments 2006-10-03 23:01:26 +02:00
Kbuild [HEADERS] One line per header in Kbuild files to reduce conflicts 2006-09-19 12:43:58 +01:00