+ mm-mempolicy-simplify-weighted-interleave-bulk-alloc-calculations.patch added to mm-new branch

+ mm-mempolicy-simplify-weighted-interleave-bulk-alloc-calculations.patch added to mm-new branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm/mempolicy: simplify weighted interleave bulk alloc calculations
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     mm-mempolicy-simplify-weighted-interleave-bulk-alloc-calculations.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-mempolicy-simplify-weighted-interleave-bulk-alloc-calculations.patch

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From: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Subject: mm/mempolicy: simplify weighted interleave bulk alloc calculations
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 13:09:33 -0700

Patch series "mm/mempolicy: Cleanup and optimization for weighted
interleave".

Two small patches for weighted interleave bulk allocaton.

The first patch simplifies the delta calculation needed for the allocations,
removing an if-else and performing unconditional additions instead.

The second patch makes a minor improvement to the weighted interleave bulk
allocation function by skipping a call to __alloc_pages_bulk.

Running a quick benchmark by compiling the kernel shows a small increase
in performance. These experiments were run on a machine with 2 nodes, each
with 125GB memory and 40 CPUs.

time numactl -w 0,1 make -j$(nproc)

+----------+---------+------------+---------+
| Time (s) |  6.16   | With patch | % Delta |
+----------+---------+------------+---------+
| Real     |  88.374 |    88.3356 | -0.2019 |
| User     |  3631.7 |   3636.263 |  0.0631 |
| Sys      | 366.029 |    363.792 | -0.7534 |
+----------+---------+------------+---------+


This patch (of 2):

Simplify the math used to figure out how many pages should be allocated
per node.  Instead of making conditional additions and deletions, we can
just make them unconditional by using min().  No functional changes
intended.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250626200936.3974420-1-joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250626200936.3974420-2-joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Mathew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/mempolicy.c |   15 ++++++---------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/mempolicy.c~mm-mempolicy-simplify-weighted-interleave-bulk-alloc-calculations
+++ a/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2645,18 +2645,15 @@ static unsigned long alloc_pages_bulk_we
 	for (i = 0; i < nnodes; i++) {
 		node = next_node_in(prev_node, nodes);
 		weight = weights[node];
-		node_pages = weight * rounds;
-		/* If a delta exists, add this node's portion of the delta */
-		if (delta > weight) {
-			node_pages += weight;
-			delta -= weight;
-		} else if (delta) {
-			/* when delta is depleted, resume from that node */
-			node_pages += delta;
+		/* when delta is depleted, resume from that node */
+		if (delta && delta < weight) {
 			resume_node = node;
 			resume_weight = weight - delta;
-			delta = 0;
 		}
+		/* Add the node's portion of the delta, if there is one */
+		node_pages = weight * rounds + min(delta, weight);
+		delta -= min(delta, weight);
+
 		/* node_pages can be 0 if an allocation fails and rounds == 0 */
 		if (!node_pages)
 			break;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com are

mm-mempolicy-skip-unnecessary-synchronize_rcu.patch
mm-mempolicy-simplify-weighted-interleave-bulk-alloc-calculations.patch
mm-mempolicy-skip-extra-call-to-__alloc_pages_bulk-in-weighted-interleave.patch