From: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mounting 4000 disks
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 16:19:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200304031619.01424.pbadari@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030403154314.7b8604c9.akpm@digeo.com>
On Thursday 03 April 2003 03:43 pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been playing with testing 4000 disk support. (using 32bit dev_t).
> >
> > I created 4000 disks using scsi_debug and mounted them.
> > We consumed 84MB of low memory by just mouting 4000 filesystems.
> > Out of 84MB lowmem 48MB is in slabs. 33 MB is used by buffers.
>
> 20 kbytes per disk+filesystem seems reasonable.
>
> The "Buffers" will be the superblock (4k) and the group descriptor blocks
> (256 bytes per gigabyte of disk). These are pinned memory.
>
> And the ext2 superblock got bigger in -mm due to the recent scalability
> patches.
>
> What is using the "size-8192" allocation there? It could be the ext2
> superblock if you have NR_CPUS=32.
I think so..
Apr 3 17:21:46 elm3b78 kernel: [<c013f71b>] kmalloc+0x5b/0x1d0
Apr 3 17:21:46 elm3b78 kernel: [<c0208d62>] vsnprintf+0x2a2/0x430
Apr 3 17:21:46 elm3b78 kernel: [<c01aae3b>] ext2_fill_super+0x2b/0x8f0
Apr 3 17:21:46 elm3b78 kernel: [<c0208f09>] snprintf+0x19/0x20
Apr 3 17:21:46 elm3b78 kernel: [<c025ad88>] __bdevname+0xc8/0x110
Apr 3 17:21:46 elm3b78 kernel: [<c015cd60>] get_sb_bdev+0xe0/0x130
Apr 3 17:21:46 elm3b78 kernel: [<c0172579>] alloc_vfsmnt+0x79/0xb0
Apr 3 17:21:46 elm3b78 kernel: [<c016330e>] real_lookup+0x5e/0xd0
Apr 3 17:21:46 elm3b78 kernel: [<c01aba8e>] ext2_get_sb+0x1e/0x30
Apr 3 17:21:46 elm3b78 kernel: [<c01aae10>] ext2_fill_super+0x0/0x8f0
Apr 3 17:21:46 elm3b78 kernel: [<c015cf34>] do_kern_mount+0x44/0xc0
Apr 3 17:21:46 elm3b78 kernel: [<c0173ba9>] do_add_mount+0x79/0x170
Apr 3 17:21:46 elm3b78 kernel: [<c0109d8d>] error_code+0x2d/0x38
Apr 3 17:21:46 elm3b78 kernel: [<c0173ebb>] do_mount+0x14b/0x170
Apr 3 17:21:46 elm3b78 kernel: [<c0173d13>] copy_mount_options+0x73/0xd0
Apr 3 17:21:46 elm3b78 kernel: [<c017455d>] sys_mount+0xed/0x180
Apr 3 17:21:46 elm3b78 kernel: [<c0109303>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-03 23:20 Badari Pulavarty
2003-04-03 23:43 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-04 0:19 ` Badari Pulavarty [this message]
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