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authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>2008-04-28 02:12:18 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-28 08:58:19 -0700
commit19770b32609b6bf97a3dece2529089494cbfc549 (patch)
tree3b5922d1b20aabdf929bde9309f323841717747a /include/linux/mempolicy.h
parentdd1a239f6f2d4d3eedd318583ec319aa145b324c (diff)
mm: filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask
The MPOL_BIND policy creates a zonelist that is used for allocations controlled by that mempolicy. As the per-node zonelist is already being filtered based on a zone id, this patch adds a version of __alloc_pages() that takes a nodemask for further filtering. This eliminates the need for MPOL_BIND to create a custom zonelist. A positive benefit of this is that allocations using MPOL_BIND now use the local node's distance-ordered zonelist instead of a custom node-id-ordered zonelist. I.e., pages will be allocated from the closest allowed node with available memory. [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: update stale documentation and comments] [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: make dequeue_huge_page_vma() obey MPOL_BIND nodemask] [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: make dequeue_huge_page_vma() obey MPOL_BIND nodemask rework] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mempolicy.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mempolicy.h19
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mempolicy.h b/include/linux/mempolicy.h
index 69160dc32d4..b8b3da7a331 100644
--- a/include/linux/mempolicy.h
+++ b/include/linux/mempolicy.h
@@ -54,19 +54,20 @@ struct mm_struct;
* mmap_sem.
*
* Freeing policy:
- * When policy is MPOL_BIND v.zonelist is kmalloc'ed and must be kfree'd.
- * All other policies don't have any external state. mpol_free() handles this.
+ * Mempolicy objects are reference counted. A mempolicy will be freed when
+ * mpol_free() decrements the reference count to zero.
*
* Copying policy objects:
- * For MPOL_BIND the zonelist must be always duplicated. mpol_clone() does this.
+ * mpol_copy() allocates a new mempolicy and copies the specified mempolicy
+ * to the new storage. The reference count of the new object is initialized
+ * to 1, representing the caller of mpol_copy().
*/
struct mempolicy {
atomic_t refcnt;
short policy; /* See MPOL_* above */
union {
- struct zonelist *zonelist; /* bind */
short preferred_node; /* preferred */
- nodemask_t nodes; /* interleave */
+ nodemask_t nodes; /* interleave/bind */
/* undefined for default */
} v;
nodemask_t cpuset_mems_allowed; /* mempolicy relative to these nodes */
@@ -151,7 +152,8 @@ extern void mpol_fix_fork_child_flag(struct task_struct *p);
extern struct mempolicy default_policy;
extern struct zonelist *huge_zonelist(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
- unsigned long addr, gfp_t gfp_flags, struct mempolicy **mpol);
+ unsigned long addr, gfp_t gfp_flags,
+ struct mempolicy **mpol, nodemask_t **nodemask);
extern unsigned slab_node(struct mempolicy *policy);
extern enum zone_type policy_zone;
@@ -239,8 +241,11 @@ static inline void mpol_fix_fork_child_flag(struct task_struct *p)
}
static inline struct zonelist *huge_zonelist(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
- unsigned long addr, gfp_t gfp_flags, struct mempolicy **mpol)
+ unsigned long addr, gfp_t gfp_flags,
+ struct mempolicy **mpol, nodemask_t **nodemask)
{
+ *mpol = NULL;
+ *nodemask = NULL;
return node_zonelist(0, gfp_flags);
}