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| author | Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> | 2007-08-23 01:02:05 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-08-23 06:52:47 +0400 |
| commit | b377fd3982ad957c796758a90e2988401a884241 (patch) | |
| tree | 3d7449ccdf7038bffffa9323873f4095cc1ac6ce /mm | |
| parent | 8e92f21ba3ea3f54e4be062b87ef9fc4af2d33e2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-b377fd3982ad957c796758a90e2988401a884241.tar.xz | |
Apply memory policies to top two highest zones when highest zone is ZONE_MOVABLE
The NUMA layer only supports NUMA policies for the highest zone. When
ZONE_MOVABLE is configured with kernelcore=, the the highest zone becomes
ZONE_MOVABLE. The result is that policies are only applied to allocations
like anonymous pages and page cache allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE when the
zone is used.
This patch applies policies to the two highest zones when the highest zone
is ZONE_MOVABLE. As ZONE_MOVABLE consists of pages from the highest "real"
zone, it's always functionally equivalent.
The patch has been tested on a variety of machines both NUMA and non-NUMA
covering x86, x86_64 and ppc64. No abnormal results were seen in
kernbench, tbench, dbench or hackbench. It passes regression tests from
the numactl package with and without kernelcore= once numactl tests are
patched to wait for vmstat counters to update.
akpm: this is the nasty hack to fix NUMA mempolicies in the presence of
ZONE_MOVABLE and kernelcore= in 2.6.23. Christoph says "For .24 either merge
the mobility or get the other solution that Mel is working on. That solution
would only use a single zonelist per node and filter on the fly. That may
help performance and also help to make memory policies work better."
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Tested-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/mempolicy.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 13 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index 71b84b45154a..172abffeb2e3 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ static struct zonelist *bind_zonelist(nodemask_t *nodes) lower zones etc. Avoid empty zones because the memory allocator doesn't like them. If you implement node hot removal you have to fix that. */ - k = policy_zone; + k = MAX_NR_ZONES - 1; while (1) { for_each_node_mask(nd, *nodes) { struct zone *z = &NODE_DATA(nd)->node_zones[k]; diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 3da85b81dabb..6427653023aa 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1157,6 +1157,7 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, nodemask_t *allowednodes = NULL;/* zonelist_cache approximation */ int zlc_active = 0; /* set if using zonelist_cache */ int did_zlc_setup = 0; /* just call zlc_setup() one time */ + enum zone_type highest_zoneidx = -1; /* Gets set for policy zonelists */ zonelist_scan: /* @@ -1166,6 +1167,18 @@ zonelist_scan: z = zonelist->zones; do { + /* + * In NUMA, this could be a policy zonelist which contains + * zones that may not be allowed by the current gfp_mask. + * Check the zone is allowed by the current flags + */ + if (unlikely(alloc_should_filter_zonelist(zonelist))) { + if (highest_zoneidx == -1) + highest_zoneidx = gfp_zone(gfp_mask); + if (zone_idx(*z) > highest_zoneidx) + continue; + } + if (NUMA_BUILD && zlc_active && !zlc_zone_worth_trying(zonelist, z, allowednodes)) continue; |