On 8/6/19 3:47 AM, Mike Kravetz wrote: > When allocating hugetlbfs pool pages via /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages, > the pages will be interleaved between all nodes of the system. If > nodes are not equal, it is quite possible for one node to fill up > before the others. When this happens, the code still attempts to > allocate pages from the full node. This results in calls to direct > reclaim and compaction which slow things down considerably. > > When allocating pool pages, note the state of the previous allocation > for each node. If previous allocation failed, do not use the > aggressive retry algorithm on successive attempts. The allocation > will still succeed if there is memory available, but it will not try > as hard to free up memory. > > Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Thanks.