Some workloads that create a large number of small files tend to assign
too many pages to node 0 (multi-node systems). Part of the reason is that
the rotor (in cpuset_mem_spread_node()) used to assign nodes starts
at node 0 for newly created tasks.
This patch changes the rotor to be initialized to a random node number
of the cpuset.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/mm/numa.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
include/linux/bitmap.h | 1 +
include/linux/nodemask.h | 5 +++++
kernel/fork.c | 4 ++++
lib/bitmap.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 46 insertions(+)
Index: linux/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/x86/mm/numa.c 2010-04-27 16:46:32.272216927 -0500
+++ linux/arch/x86/mm/numa.c 2010-04-28 08:07:09.394972376 -0500
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
#include <linux/topology.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/bootmem.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
# define DBG(x...) printk(KERN_DEBUG x)
@@ -65,3 +66,19 @@ const struct cpumask *cpumask_of_node(in
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpumask_of_node);
#endif
+
+/*
+ * Return the bit number of a random bit set in the nodemask.
+ * (returns -1 if nodemask is empty)
+ */
+int __node_random(const nodemask_t *maskp)
+{
+ int w, bit = -1;
+
+ w = nodes_weight(maskp->bits);
+ if (w)
+ bit = bitmap_find_nth_bit(maskp->bits,
+ get_random_int() % w, MAX_NUMNODES);
+ return bit;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__node_random);
Index: linux/include/linux/bitmap.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/linux/bitmap.h 2010-04-27 16:46:32.272216927 -0500
+++ linux/include/linux/bitmap.h 2010-04-27 16:46:36.402929137 -0500
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ extern int bitmap_find_free_region(unsig
extern void bitmap_release_region(unsigned long *bitmap, int pos, int order);
extern int bitmap_allocate_region(unsigned long *bitmap, int pos, int order);
extern void bitmap_copy_le(void *dst, const unsigned long *src, int nbits);
+extern int bitmap_find_nth_bit(const unsigned long *bitmap, int n, int bits);
#define BITMAP_LAST_WORD_MASK(nbits) \
( \
Index: linux/include/linux/nodemask.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/linux/nodemask.h 2010-04-27 16:46:32.272216927 -0500
+++ linux/include/linux/nodemask.h 2010-04-27 16:46:36.430899232 -0500
@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@
*
* int any_online_node(mask) First online node in mask
*
+ * int node_random(mask) Random node that is set in mask
+ *
* node_set_online(node) set bit 'node' in node_online_map
* node_set_offline(node) clear bit 'node' in node_online_map
*
@@ -264,6 +266,9 @@ static inline int __first_unset_node(con
find_first_zero_bit(maskp->bits, MAX_NUMNODES));
}
+#define node_random(mask) __node_random(&(mask))
+extern int __node_random(const nodemask_t *maskp);
+
#define NODE_MASK_LAST_WORD BITMAP_LAST_WORD_MASK(MAX_NUMNODES)
#if MAX_NUMNODES <= BITS_PER_LONG
Index: linux/kernel/fork.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/kernel/fork.c 2010-04-27 16:46:32.276200259 -0500
+++ linux/kernel/fork.c 2010-04-28 08:06:37.106967112 -0500
@@ -1097,6 +1097,10 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(
}
mpol_fix_fork_child_flag(p);
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPUSETS
+ p->cpuset_mem_spread_rotor = node_random(p->mems_allowed);
+ p->cpuset_slab_spread_rotor = node_random(p->mems_allowed);
+#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS
p->irq_events = 0;
#ifdef __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
Index: linux/lib/bitmap.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/lib/bitmap.c 2010-04-27 16:46:32.272216927 -0500
+++ linux/lib/bitmap.c 2010-04-27 16:46:36.570946439 -0500
@@ -1022,3 +1022,22 @@ void bitmap_copy_le(void *dst, const uns
}
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bitmap_copy_le);
+
+/**
+ * bitmap_find_nth_bit(buf, ord, bits)
+ * @buf: pointer to bitmap
+ * @n: ordinal bit position (n-th set bit, n >= 0)
+ * @nbits: number of bits in the bitmap
+ *
+ * find the Nth bit that is set in the bitmap
+ * Value of @n should be in range 0 <= @n < weight(buf), else
+ * results are undefined.
+ *
+ * The bit positions 0 through @bits are valid positions in @buf.
+ */
+int bitmap_find_nth_bit(const unsigned long *bitmap, int n, int bits)
+{
+ return bitmap_ord_to_pos(bitmap, n, bits);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(bitmap_find_nth_bit);
+
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