Eric Dumazet reported a strange numa spreading info in [1], and found commit 121e6f3258fe ("mm/vmalloc: hugepage vmalloc mappings") introduced this issue [2]. Dig into the difference before and after this patch, page allocation has some difference: before: alloc_large_system_hash __vmalloc __vmalloc_node(..., NUMA_NO_NODE, ...) __vmalloc_node_range __vmalloc_area_node alloc_page /* because NUMA_NO_NODE, so choose alloc_page branch */ alloc_pages_current alloc_page_interleave /* can be proved by print policy mode */ after: alloc_large_system_hash __vmalloc __vmalloc_node(..., NUMA_NO_NODE, ...) __vmalloc_node_range __vmalloc_area_node alloc_pages_node /* choose nid by nuam_mem_id() */ __alloc_pages_node(nid, ....) So after commit 121e6f3258fe ("mm/vmalloc: hugepage vmalloc mappings"), it will allocate memory in current node instead of interleaving allocate memory. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CANn89iL6AAyWhfxdHO+jaT075iOa3XcYn9k6JJc7JR2XYn6k_Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CANn89iLofTR=AK-QOZY87RdUZENCZUT4O6a0hvhu3_EwRMerOg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Fixes: 121e6f3258fe ("mm/vmalloc: hugepage vmalloc mappings") Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chen Wandun <chenwandun@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmalloc.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index f884706c5280..48e717626e94 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -2823,6 +2823,8 @@ vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, int nid, unsigned int order, unsigned int nr_pages, struct page **pages) { unsigned int nr_allocated = 0; + struct page *page; + int i; /* * For order-0 pages we make use of bulk allocator, if @@ -2833,6 +2835,7 @@ vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, int nid, if (!order) { while (nr_allocated < nr_pages) { unsigned int nr, nr_pages_request; + page = NULL; /* * A maximum allowed request is hard-coded and is 100 @@ -2842,9 +2845,23 @@ vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, int nid, */ nr_pages_request = min(100U, nr_pages - nr_allocated); - nr = alloc_pages_bulk_array_node(gfp, nid, - nr_pages_request, pages + nr_allocated); - + if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE) { + for (i = 0; i < nr_pages_request; i++) { + page = alloc_page(gfp); + if (page) + pages[nr_allocated + i] = page; + else { + nr = i; + break; + } + } + if (i >= nr_pages_request) + nr = nr_pages_request; + } else { + nr = alloc_pages_bulk_array_node(gfp, nid, + nr_pages_request, + pages + nr_allocated); + } nr_allocated += nr; cond_resched(); @@ -2863,11 +2880,13 @@ vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, int nid, gfp |= __GFP_COMP; /* High-order pages or fallback path if "bulk" fails. */ - while (nr_allocated < nr_pages) { - struct page *page; - int i; - page = alloc_pages_node(nid, gfp, order); + page = NULL; + while (nr_allocated < nr_pages) { + if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE) + page = alloc_pages(gfp, order); + else + page = alloc_pages_node(nid, gfp, order); if (unlikely(!page)) break; -- 2.25.1