Re: [PATCH v2] cpusets: randomize node rotor used in cpuset_mem_spread_node()

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:20:51 +0200
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> wrote:

> Some workloads that create a large number of small files tend to assign
> too many pages to node 0 (multi-node systems).  Part of the reason is that
> the rotor (in cpuset_mem_spread_node()) used to assign nodes starts at
> node 0 for newly created tasks.
> 
> This patch changes the rotor to be initialized to a random node number of
> the cpuset. We are initializating it lazily in cpuset_mem_spread_node
> resp. cpuset_slab_spread_node.
> 
>
> ...
>
> --- a/kernel/cpuset.c
> +++ b/kernel/cpuset.c
> @@ -2465,11 +2465,19 @@ static int cpuset_spread_node(int *rotor)
>  
>  int cpuset_mem_spread_node(void)
>  {
> +	if (current->cpuset_mem_spread_rotor == -1)
> +		current->cpuset_mem_spread_rotor =
> +			node_random(&current->mems_allowed);
> +
>  	return cpuset_spread_node(&current->cpuset_mem_spread_rotor);
>  }
>  
>  int cpuset_slab_spread_node(void)
>  {
> +	if (current->cpuset_slab_spread_rotor == -1)
> +		current->cpuset_slab_spread_rotor
> +			= node_random(&current->mems_allowed);
> +
>  	return cpuset_spread_node(&current->cpuset_slab_spread_rotor);
>  }
>  

alpha allmodconfig:

kernel/built-in.o: In function `cpuset_slab_spread_node':
(.text+0x67360): undefined reference to `node_random'
kernel/built-in.o: In function `cpuset_slab_spread_node':
(.text+0x67368): undefined reference to `node_random'
kernel/built-in.o: In function `cpuset_mem_spread_node':
(.text+0x673b8): undefined reference to `node_random'
kernel/built-in.o: In function `cpuset_mem_spread_node':
(.text+0x673c0): undefined reference to `node_random'

because it has CONFIG_NUMA=n, CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT=7.

We use "#if MAX_NUMNODES > 1" in nodemask.h, but we use CONFIG_NUMA
when deciding to build mempolicy.o.  That's a bit odd - why didn't
nodemask.h use CONFIG_NUMA?

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