kswapd is dedicated to a specific node. As such it wants to be
preferrably affine to it, memory and CPUs-wise.
Use the proper kthread API to achieve that. As a bonus it takes care of
CPU-hotplug events and CPU-isolation on its behalf.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 7 ++-----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index cfa839284b92..b8ee3bf8fa29 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -7159,10 +7159,6 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
unsigned int highest_zoneidx = MAX_NR_ZONES - 1;
pg_data_t *pgdat = (pg_data_t *)p;
struct task_struct *tsk = current;
- const struct cpumask *cpumask = cpumask_of_node(pgdat->node_id);
-
- if (!cpumask_empty(cpumask))
- set_cpus_allowed_ptr(tsk, cpumask);
/*
* Tell the memory management that we're a "memory allocator",
@@ -7331,7 +7327,7 @@ void __meminit kswapd_run(int nid)
pgdat_kswapd_lock(pgdat);
if (!pgdat->kswapd) {
- pgdat->kswapd = kthread_run(kswapd, pgdat, "kswapd%d", nid);
+ pgdat->kswapd = kthread_create_on_node(kswapd, pgdat, nid, "kswapd%d", nid);
if (IS_ERR(pgdat->kswapd)) {
/* failure at boot is fatal */
pr_err("Failed to start kswapd on node %d，ret=%ld\n",
@@ -7339,6 +7335,7 @@ void __meminit kswapd_run(int nid)
BUG_ON(system_state < SYSTEM_RUNNING);
pgdat->kswapd = NULL;
}
+ wake_up_process(pgdat->kswapd);
}
pgdat_kswapd_unlock(pgdat);
}
--
2.45.2
