Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965735Ab2EPUAw (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2012 16:00:52 -0400 Received: from relay3.sgi.com ([192.48.152.1]:59152 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965281Ab2EPUAt convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2012 16:00:49 -0400 From: Nathan Zimmer To: Hugh Dickins , Nick Piggin , Christoph Lameter , Lee Schermerhorn CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "stable@vger.kernel.org" Subject: [PATCH] tmpfs not interleaving properly Thread-Topic: [PATCH] tmpfs not interleaving properly Thread-Index: Ac0znpEud/UKP154QuCbsU7dRS4hWw== Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 20:00:39 +0000 Message-ID: <74F10842A85F514CA8D8C487E74474BB2C0429@P-EXMB1-DC21.corp.sgi.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [128.162.233.143] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1979 Lines: 51 When tmpfs has the memory policy interleaved it always starts allocating at each file at node 0. When there are many small files the lower nodes fill up disproportionately. My proposed solution is to start a file at a randomly chosen node. Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan T Zimmer diff --git a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h b/include/linux/shmem_fs.h index 79ab255..38eda26 100644 --- a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h +++ b/include/linux/shmem_fs.h @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ struct shmem_inode_info { char *symlink; /* unswappable short symlink */ }; struct shared_policy policy; /* NUMA memory alloc policy */ + int node_offset; /* bias for interleaved nodes */ struct list_head swaplist; /* chain of maybes on swap */ struct list_head xattr_list; /* list of shmem_xattr */ struct inode vfs_inode; diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index f99ff3e..58ef512 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -819,7 +819,7 @@ static struct page *shmem_alloc_page(gfp_t gfp, /* Create a pseudo vma that just contains the policy */ pvma.vm_start = 0; - pvma.vm_pgoff = index; + pvma.vm_pgoff = index + info->node_offset; pvma.vm_ops = NULL; pvma.vm_policy = mpol_shared_policy_lookup(&info->policy, index); @@ -1153,6 +1153,7 @@ static struct inode *shmem_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, const struct inode inode->i_fop = &shmem_file_operations; mpol_shared_policy_init(&info->policy, shmem_get_sbmpol(sbinfo)); + info->node_offset = node_random(&node_online_map); break; case S_IFDIR: inc_nlink(inode); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/