From 6adef3ebe570bcde67fd6c16101451ddde5712b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jack Steiner Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 14:42:49 -0700 Subject: cpusets: new round-robin rotor for SLAB allocations We have observed several workloads running on multi-node systems where memory is assigned unevenly across the nodes in the system. There are numerous reasons for this but one is the round-robin rotor in cpuset_mem_spread_node(). For example, a simple test that writes a multi-page file will allocate pages on nodes 0 2 4 6 ... Odd nodes are skipped. (Sometimes it allocates on odd nodes & skips even nodes). An example is shown below. The program "lfile" writes a file consisting of 10 pages. The program then mmaps the file & uses get_mempolicy(..., MPOL_F_NODE) to determine the nodes where the file pages were allocated. The output is shown below: # ./lfile allocated on nodes: 2 4 6 0 1 2 6 0 2 There is a single rotor that is used for allocating both file pages & slab pages. Writing the file allocates both a data page & a slab page (buffer_head). This advances the RR rotor 2 nodes for each page allocated. A quick confirmation seems to confirm this is the cause of the uneven allocation: # echo 0 >/dev/cpuset/memory_spread_slab # ./lfile allocated on nodes: 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 This patch introduces a second rotor that is used for slab allocations. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Paul Menage Cc: Jack Steiner Cc: Robin Holt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/cpuset.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/cpuset.c b/kernel/cpuset.c index 61d6af7fa67..02b9611eadd 100644 --- a/kernel/cpuset.c +++ b/kernel/cpuset.c @@ -2469,7 +2469,8 @@ void cpuset_unlock(void) } /** - * cpuset_mem_spread_node() - On which node to begin search for a page + * cpuset_mem_spread_node() - On which node to begin search for a file page + * cpuset_slab_spread_node() - On which node to begin search for a slab page * * If a task is marked PF_SPREAD_PAGE or PF_SPREAD_SLAB (as for * tasks in a cpuset with is_spread_page or is_spread_slab set), @@ -2494,16 +2495,27 @@ void cpuset_unlock(void) * See kmem_cache_alloc_node(). */ -int cpuset_mem_spread_node(void) +static int cpuset_spread_node(int *rotor) { int node; - node = next_node(current->cpuset_mem_spread_rotor, current->mems_allowed); + node = next_node(*rotor, current->mems_allowed); if (node == MAX_NUMNODES) node = first_node(current->mems_allowed); - current->cpuset_mem_spread_rotor = node; + *rotor = node; return node; } + +int cpuset_mem_spread_node(void) +{ + return cpuset_spread_node(¤t->cpuset_mem_spread_rotor); +} + +int cpuset_slab_spread_node(void) +{ + return cpuset_spread_node(¤t->cpuset_slab_spread_rotor); +} + EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpuset_mem_spread_node); /** -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258