Re: [Lse-tech] [RFC] [PATCH] Scalable Statistics Counters

[Niels Christiansen]

Hello Dikanpar,

| > Anyway, since we just had a long thread going on NUMA topology, maybe
| > it would be proper to investigate if there is a better way, such as
| > using the topology to decide where to put counters?  I think so, seeing
| > as it is that most Intel based 8-ways and above will have at least some
| > NUMA in them.
|
| It should be easy to place the counters in appropriately close
| memory if linux gets good NUMA APIs built on top of the topology
| services. If we extend kmem_cache_alloc() to allocate memory
| in a particular NUMA node, we could simply do this for placing the
| counters -
| ...
| This would put the block of counters corresponding to a CPU in
| memory local to the NUMA node. If there are more sophisticated
| APIs available for suitable memory selection, those too can be made
| use of here.
|
| Is this the kind of thing you are looking at ?

I'm no NUMA person so I can't verify your code snippet but if it does
what you say, yes, that is exactly what I meant:  We may have to deal
with both cache coherence and placement of counters in local memory.

Niels