From 720eba31f47aeade8ec130ca7f4353223c49170f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 13:31:36 +1030 Subject: modules: Use a better scheme for refcounting Current refcounting for modules (done if CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y) is using a lot of memory. Each 'struct module' contains an [NR_CPUS] array of full cache lines. This patch uses existing infrastructure (percpu_modalloc() & percpu_modfree()) to allocate percpu space for the refcount storage. Instead of wasting NR_CPUS*128 bytes (on i386), we now use nr_cpu_ids*sizeof(local_t) bytes. On a typical distro, where NR_CPUS=8, shiping 2000 modules, we reduce size of module files by about 2 Mbytes. (1Kb per module) Instead of having all refcounters in the same memory node - with TLB misses because of vmalloc() - this new implementation permits to have better NUMA properties, since each CPU will use storage on its preferred node, thanks to percpu storage. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/module.h | 25 ++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h index 4f7ea12463d3..f3b8329eb5b8 100644 --- a/include/linux/module.h +++ b/include/linux/module.h @@ -219,11 +219,6 @@ void *__symbol_get_gpl(const char *symbol); #endif -struct module_ref -{ - local_t count; -} ____cacheline_aligned; - enum module_state { MODULE_STATE_LIVE, @@ -344,8 +339,11 @@ struct module /* Destruction function. */ void (*exit)(void); - /* Reference counts */ - struct module_ref ref[NR_CPUS]; +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP + char *refptr; +#else + local_t ref; +#endif #endif }; #ifndef MODULE_ARCH_INIT @@ -395,13 +393,22 @@ void __symbol_put(const char *symbol); #define symbol_put(x) __symbol_put(MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX #x) void symbol_put_addr(void *addr); +static inline local_t *__module_ref_addr(struct module *mod, int cpu) +{ +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP + return (local_t *) (mod->refptr + per_cpu_offset(cpu)); +#else + return &mod->ref; +#endif +} + /* Sometimes we know we already have a refcount, and it's easier not to handle the error case (which only happens with rmmod --wait). */ static inline void __module_get(struct module *module) { if (module) { BUG_ON(module_refcount(module) == 0); - local_inc(&module->ref[get_cpu()].count); + local_inc(__module_ref_addr(module, get_cpu())); put_cpu(); } } @@ -413,7 +420,7 @@ static inline int try_module_get(struct module *module) if (module) { unsigned int cpu = get_cpu(); if (likely(module_is_live(module))) - local_inc(&module->ref[cpu].count); + local_inc(__module_ref_addr(module, cpu)); else ret = 0; put_cpu(); -- cgit v1.2.3