Kcompactd 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/compaction.c | 43 +++---------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index a2b16b08cbbf..a31c0f5758cf 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -3154,15 +3154,9 @@ void wakeup_kcompactd(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, int highest_zoneidx) static int kcompactd(void *p) { pg_data_t *pgdat = (pg_data_t *)p; - struct task_struct *tsk = current; long default_timeout = msecs_to_jiffies(HPAGE_FRAG_CHECK_INTERVAL_MSEC); long timeout = default_timeout; - const struct cpumask *cpumask = cpumask_of_node(pgdat->node_id); - - if (!cpumask_empty(cpumask)) - set_cpus_allowed_ptr(tsk, cpumask); - set_freezable(); pgdat->kcompactd_max_order = 0; @@ -3233,10 +3227,12 @@ void __meminit kcompactd_run(int nid) if (pgdat->kcompactd) return; - pgdat->kcompactd = kthread_run(kcompactd, pgdat, "kcompactd%d", nid); + pgdat->kcompactd = kthread_create_on_node(kcompactd, pgdat, nid, "kcompactd%d", nid); if (IS_ERR(pgdat->kcompactd)) { pr_err("Failed to start kcompactd on node %d\n", nid); pgdat->kcompactd = NULL; + } else { + wake_up_process(pgdat->kcompactd); } } @@ -3254,30 +3250,6 @@ void __meminit kcompactd_stop(int nid) } } -/* - * It's optimal to keep kcompactd on the same CPUs as their memory, but - * not required for correctness. So if the last cpu in a node goes - * away, we get changed to run anywhere: as the first one comes back, - * restore their cpu bindings. - */ -static int kcompactd_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu) -{ - int nid; - - for_each_node_state(nid, N_MEMORY) { - pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid); - const struct cpumask *mask; - - mask = cpumask_of_node(pgdat->node_id); - - if (cpumask_any_and(cpu_online_mask, mask) < nr_cpu_ids) - /* One of our CPUs online: restore mask */ - if (pgdat->kcompactd) - set_cpus_allowed_ptr(pgdat->kcompactd, mask); - } - return 0; -} - static int proc_dointvec_minmax_warn_RT_change(const struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { @@ -3337,15 +3309,6 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_compaction[] = { static int __init kcompactd_init(void) { int nid; - int ret; - - ret = cpuhp_setup_state_nocalls(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN, - "mm/compaction:online", - kcompactd_cpu_online, NULL); - if (ret < 0) { - pr_err("kcompactd: failed to register hotplug callbacks.\n"); - return ret; - } for_each_node_state(nid, N_MEMORY) kcompactd_run(nid); -- 2.46.0