Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:58:04 -0600 (CST)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
        Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
        Ben Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread: ensure locality of task_struct allocations
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On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, David Rientjes wrote:

> > diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
> > index b5ae3ee..8573e4e 100644
> > --- a/kernel/kthread.c
> > +++ b/kernel/kthread.c
> > @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ int tsk_fork_get_node(struct task_struct *tsk)
> >  	if (tsk == kthreadd_task)
> >  		return tsk->pref_node_fork;
> >  #endif
> > -	return numa_node_id();
> > +	return numa_mem_id();
>
> I'm wondering why return NUMA_NO_NODE wouldn't have the same effect and
> prefer the local node?
>

The idea here seems to be that the allocation may occur from a cpu that is
different from where the process will run later on.

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