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authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>2007-08-22 14:02:05 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-08-22 19:52:47 -0700
commitb377fd3982ad957c796758a90e2988401a884241 (patch)
tree3d7449ccdf7038bffffa9323873f4095cc1ac6ce /mm/mempolicy.c
parent8e92f21ba3ea3f54e4be062b87ef9fc4af2d33e2 (diff)
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Apply memory policies to top two highest zones when highest zone is ZONE_MOVABLE
The NUMA layer only supports NUMA policies for the highest zone. When ZONE_MOVABLE is configured with kernelcore=, the the highest zone becomes ZONE_MOVABLE. The result is that policies are only applied to allocations like anonymous pages and page cache allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE when the zone is used. This patch applies policies to the two highest zones when the highest zone is ZONE_MOVABLE. As ZONE_MOVABLE consists of pages from the highest "real" zone, it's always functionally equivalent. The patch has been tested on a variety of machines both NUMA and non-NUMA covering x86, x86_64 and ppc64. No abnormal results were seen in kernbench, tbench, dbench or hackbench. It passes regression tests from the numactl package with and without kernelcore= once numactl tests are patched to wait for vmstat counters to update. akpm: this is the nasty hack to fix NUMA mempolicies in the presence of ZONE_MOVABLE and kernelcore= in 2.6.23. Christoph says "For .24 either merge the mobility or get the other solution that Mel is working on. That solution would only use a single zonelist per node and filter on the fly. That may help performance and also help to make memory policies work better." Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Tested-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 71b84b45154a..172abffeb2e3 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ static struct zonelist *bind_zonelist(nodemask_t *nodes)
lower zones etc. Avoid empty zones because the memory allocator
doesn't like them. If you implement node hot removal you
have to fix that. */
- k = policy_zone;
+ k = MAX_NR_ZONES - 1;
while (1) {
for_each_node_mask(nd, *nodes) {
struct zone *z = &NODE_DATA(nd)->node_zones[k];