From 6adef3ebe570bcde67fd6c16101451ddde5712b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jack Steiner Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 14:42:49 -0700 Subject: cpusets: new round-robin rotor for SLAB allocations We have observed several workloads running on multi-node systems where memory is assigned unevenly across the nodes in the system. There are numerous reasons for this but one is the round-robin rotor in cpuset_mem_spread_node(). For example, a simple test that writes a multi-page file will allocate pages on nodes 0 2 4 6 ... Odd nodes are skipped. (Sometimes it allocates on odd nodes & skips even nodes). An example is shown below. The program "lfile" writes a file consisting of 10 pages. The program then mmaps the file & uses get_mempolicy(..., MPOL_F_NODE) to determine the nodes where the file pages were allocated. The output is shown below: # ./lfile allocated on nodes: 2 4 6 0 1 2 6 0 2 There is a single rotor that is used for allocating both file pages & slab pages. Writing the file allocates both a data page & a slab page (buffer_head). This advances the RR rotor 2 nodes for each page allocated. A quick confirmation seems to confirm this is the cause of the uneven allocation: # echo 0 >/dev/cpuset/memory_spread_slab # ./lfile allocated on nodes: 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 This patch introduces a second rotor that is used for slab allocations. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Paul Menage Cc: Jack Steiner Cc: Robin Holt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/slab.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index 02786e1a32d..8270ba3d198 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -3219,7 +3219,7 @@ static void *alternate_node_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags) nid_alloc = nid_here = numa_node_id(); get_mems_allowed(); if (cpuset_do_slab_mem_spread() && (cachep->flags & SLAB_MEM_SPREAD)) - nid_alloc = cpuset_mem_spread_node(); + nid_alloc = cpuset_slab_spread_node(); else if (current->mempolicy) nid_alloc = slab_node(current->mempolicy); put_mems_allowed(); -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2