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. Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 28ba2b06fc7d..5d7686bef51c 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -7168,10 +7168,6 @@ 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", @@ -7340,13 +7336,15 @@ 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", nid, PTR_ERR(pgdat->kswapd)); BUG_ON(system_state < SYSTEM_RUNNING); pgdat->kswapd = NULL; + } else { + wake_up_process(pgdat->kswapd); } } pgdat_kswapd_unlock(pgdat); -- 2.46.0