From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> alloc_bucket_locks allocation pattern is quite unusual. We are preferring vmalloc when CONFIG_NUMA is enabled. The rationale is that vmalloc will respect the memory policy of the current process and so the backing memory will get distributed over multiple nodes if the requester is configured properly. At least that is the intention, in reality rhastable is shrunk and expanded from a kernel worker so no mempolicy can be assumed. Let's just simplify the code and use kvmalloc helper, which is a transparent way to use kmalloc with vmalloc fallback, if the caller is allowed to block and use the flag otherwise. Cc: Tom Herbert <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> --- lib/rhashtable.c | 13 +++---------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/rhashtable.c b/lib/rhashtable.c index 32d0ad058380..1a487ea70829 100644 --- a/lib/rhashtable.c +++ b/lib/rhashtable.c @@ -77,16 +77,9 @@ static int alloc_bucket_locks(struct rhashtable *ht, struct bucket_table *tbl, size = min_t(unsigned int, size, tbl->size >> 1); if (sizeof(spinlock_t) != 0) { - tbl->locks = NULL; -#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA - if (size * sizeof(spinlock_t) > PAGE_SIZE && - gfp == GFP_KERNEL) - tbl->locks = vmalloc(size * sizeof(spinlock_t)); -#endif - if (gfp != GFP_KERNEL) - gfp |= __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY; - - if (!tbl->locks) + if (gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp)) + tbl->locks = kvmalloc(size * sizeof(spinlock_t), gfp); + else tbl->locks = kmalloc_array(size, sizeof(spinlock_t), gfp); if (!tbl->locks) -- 2.11.0 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>