Re: [PATCH] brd: Allow ramdisk to be allocated on selected NUMA node

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On 6/14/18 7:38 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> For performance reasons we should be able to allocate all memory
> from a given NUMA node, so this patch adds a new parameter
> 'rd_numa_node' to allow the user to specify the NUMA node id.
> When restricing fio to use the same NUMA node I'm seeing a performance
> boost of more than 200%.

Looks fine to me. One comment.

> @@ -342,6 +343,10 @@ static int max_part = 1;
>  module_param(max_part, int, 0444);
>  MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_part, "Num Minors to reserve between devices");
>  
> +static int rd_numa_node = NUMA_NO_NODE;
> +module_param(rd_numa_node, int, 0444);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(rd_numa_node, "NUMA node number to allocate RAM disk on.");

This could feasibly be 0644, as there would be nothing wrong with altering
this at runtime.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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