Patch "mm, numa: really disable NUMA balancing by default on single node machines" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

Patch "mm, numa: really disable NUMA balancing by default on single node machines" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mm, numa: really disable NUMA balancing by default on single node machines

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     mm-numa-really-disable-numa-balancing-by-default-on-single-node-machines.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From b0dc2b9bb4ab782115b964310518ee0b17784277 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 15:17:09 -0700
Subject: mm, numa: really disable NUMA balancing by default on single node machines

From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>

commit b0dc2b9bb4ab782115b964310518ee0b17784277 upstream.

NUMA balancing is meant to be disabled by default on UMA machines but
the check is using nr_node_ids (highest node) instead of
num_online_nodes (online nodes).

The consequences are that a UMA machine with a node ID of 1 or higher
will enable NUMA balancing.  This will incur useless overhead due to
minor faults with the impact depending on the workload.  These are the
impact on the stats when running a kernel build on a single node machine
whose node ID happened to be 1:

  			       vanilla     patched
  NUMA base PTE updates          5113158           0
  NUMA huge PMD updates              643           0
  NUMA page range updates        5442374           0
  NUMA hint faults               2109622           0
  NUMA hint local faults         2109622           0
  NUMA hint local percent            100         100
  NUMA pages migrated                  0           0

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/mempolicy.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2663,7 +2663,7 @@ static void __init check_numabalancing_e
 	if (numabalancing_override)
 		set_numabalancing_state(numabalancing_override == 1);
 
-	if (nr_node_ids > 1 && !numabalancing_override) {
+	if (num_online_nodes() > 1 && !numabalancing_override) {
 		pr_info("%s automatic NUMA balancing. "
 			"Configure with numa_balancing= or the "
 			"kernel.numa_balancing sysctl",


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mgorman@suse.de are

queue-3.14/mm-numa-really-disable-numa-balancing-by-default-on-single-node-machines.patch