The patch titled
memcg: allocate memory cgroup structures in local nodes
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
memcg-allocate-memory-cgroup-structures-in-local-nodes.patch
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Subject: memcg: allocate memory cgroup structures in local nodes
From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
dde79e005a769 ("page_cgroup: reduce allocation overhead for page_cgroup
array for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM") added a regression that the memory cgroup
data structures all end up in node 0 because the first attempt at
allocating them would not pass in a node hint. Since the initialization
runs on CPU #0 it would all end up node 0. This is a problem on large
memory systems, where node 0 would lose a lot of memory.
Change the alloc_pages_exact() to alloc_pages_exact_nid(). This will
still fall back to other nodes if not enough memory is available.
[RED-PEN: right now it would fall back first before trying
vmalloc_node. Probably not the best strategy ... But I left it like
that for now.]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Doug Nelson
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_cgroup.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN mm/page_cgroup.c~memcg-allocate-memory-cgroup-structures-in-local-nodes mm/page_cgroup.c
--- a/mm/page_cgroup.c~memcg-allocate-memory-cgroup-structures-in-local-nodes
+++ a/mm/page_cgroup.c
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ static void *__init_refok alloc_page_cgr
{
void *addr = NULL;
- addr = alloc_pages_exact(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
+ addr = alloc_pages_exact_nid(nid, size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (addr)
return addr;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
mm-add-alloc_pages_exact_nid.patch
mm-add-alloc_pages_exact_nid-checkpatch-fixes.patch
mm-add-alloc_pages_exact_nid-fix.patch
memcg-allocate-memory-cgroup-structures-in-local-nodes.patch
mm-rename-alloc_pages_exact.patch
mm-make-new-alloc_pages_exact.patch
mm-reuse-__free_pages_exact-in-__alloc_pages_exact.patch
readahead-return-early-when-readahead-is-disabled.patch
readahead-reduce-unnecessary-mmap_miss-increases.patch
readahead-trigger-mmap-sequential-readahead-on-pg_readahead.patch
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