From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758641AbYFFPl2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2008 11:41:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751954AbYFFPlU (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2008 11:41:20 -0400 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:41674 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751818AbYFFPlT (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2008 11:41:19 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 11:41:17 -0400 To: Jeff Layton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] sunrpc: have pooled services make NUMA-friendly allocations Message-ID: <20080606154117.GF30863@fieldses.org> References: <20080603111757.8769.69366.stgit@dantu.usersys.redhat.com> <20080603111802.8769.22921.stgit@dantu.usersys.redhat.com> <20080606112145.6a23afca@tleilax.poochiereds.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080606112145.6a23afca@tleilax.poochiereds.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) From: "J. Bruce Fields" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 11:21:45AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:18:02 -0400 > Jeff Layton wrote: > > > Currently, svc_prepare_thread allocates memory using plain kmalloc() > > and alloc_page() calls, even for threads that are destined to run on > > different CPUs or NUMA nodes than the current one. Add a function to > > translate a poolid into a NUMA node, and have svc_prepare_thread and > > svc_init_buffer allocate memory on those nodes instead. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton > > --- > > > --------[snip]-------- > > > > - rqstp = kzalloc(sizeof(*rqstp), GFP_KERNEL); > > + rqstp = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*rqstp), GFP_KERNEL, node); > > Bruce, > It looks like AKPM has taken the kzalloc_node patch into -mm. I'd > like to have you take this set into your tree at some point, but don't > want you to have to carry that VM patch too. Would you be amenable to me > changing the above to something like: > > /* FIXME: change to kzalloc_node when/if it makes it to mainline */ > rqstp = kmalloc_node(sizeof(*rqstp), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, node); > > ...and then we can make the FIXME change when mainline has the new inline? I'd rather just take a copy of the patch. Perhaps you see a problem I don't--but if it's really identical to the patch that'll go into upstream, then they'll merge trivially and there shouldn't be a problem. --b.