For large cpu configurations, we find the number of pids in a pidhash
bucket cause things like 'ps' to perform slowly. Raising pidhash_shift
from 12 to 16 cut the time for 'ps' in half on a 2048 cpu machine.
This patch makes the upper limit scale based upon num_possible_cpus().
For machines 128 cpus or less, the current upper limit of 12 is
maintained.
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Index: contention_unroll/kernel/pid.c
===================================================================
--- contention_unroll.orig/kernel/pid.c 2008-07-31 11:59:21.154284073 -0500
+++ contention_unroll/kernel/pid.c 2008-07-31 11:59:22.862497720 -0500
@@ -502,9 +502,10 @@ void __init pidhash_init(void)
{
int i, pidhash_size;
unsigned long megabytes = nr_kernel_pages >> (20 - PAGE_SHIFT);
+ int pidhash_shift_ul = max(12, fls(num_possible_cpus() - 1) + 5);
pidhash_shift = max(4, fls(megabytes * 4));
- pidhash_shift = min(12, pidhash_shift);
+ pidhash_shift = min(pidhash_shift_ul, pidhash_shift);
pidhash_size = 1 << pidhash_shift;
printk("PID hash table entries: %d (order: %d, %Zd bytes)\n",
--
