It turned out that fake numa support is rather useless on s390, since
there are no scenarios where there is any performance or other benefit
when used.
However it does provide maintenance cost and breaks from time to time.
Therefore remove it.
CONFIG_NUMA is still supported with a very small backend and only one
node. This way userspace applications which require NUMA interfaces
continue to work.
Note that NODES_SHIFT is set to 1 (= 2 nodes) instead of 0 (= 1 node),
since there is quite a bit of kernel code which assumes that more than
one node is possible if CONFIG_NUMA is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Add the correct SPDX license to a few more files under arch/s390 and
drivers/s390 which have been missed to far.
The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used
instead of the full boiler plate text.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
NUMA emulation (aka fake NUMA) distributes the available memory to nodes
without using real topology information about the physical memory of the
machine.
Splitting the system memory into nodes replicates the memory management
structures for each node. Particularly each node has its own "mm locks"
and its own "kswapd" task.
For large systems, under certain conditions, this results in improved
system performance and/or latency based on reduced pressure on the mm
locks and the kswapd tasks.
NUMA emulation distributes CPUs to nodes while respecting the original
machine topology information. This is done by trying to avoid to separate
CPUs which reside on the same book or even on the same MC. Because the
current Linux scheduler code requires a stable cpu to node mapping, cores
are pinned to nodes when the first CPU thread is set online.
This patch is based on the initial implementation from Philipp Hachtmann.
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
NUMA emulation needs proper means to mangle the book/mc/core topology
of the machine. The topology tree (toptree) consistently maintains cpu
masks for the root, each node, and all leaves of the tree while the
user may use the toptree functions to rearrange the tree in various
ways.
This patch contains several changes from Michael Holzheu.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hachtmann <phacht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Enable core NUMA support for s390 and add one simple default mode "plain"
that creates one single NUMA node.
This patch contains several changes from Michael Holzheu.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hachtmann <phacht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Heiko Carstens