linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] tmpfs not interleaving properly

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Date:	Thu, 31 May 2012 16:09:15 -0400
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>
To:	Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@....com>
CC:	hughd@...gle.com, npiggin@...il.com, cl@...ux.com,
	lee.schermerhorn@...com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, riel@...hat.com, kosaki.motohiro@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tmpfs not interleaving properly

(5/31/12 10:39 AM), Nathan Zimmer wrote:
> 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.
> This patch attempts to spread out node usage by starting files at nodes other
> then 0.  I disturbed the addr parameter since alloc_pages_vma will only use it
> when the policy is MPOL_INTERLEAVE.  Random was picked over using another
> variable which would require some sort of contention management.
>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter<cl@...ux.com>
> Cc: Nick Piggin<npiggin@...il.com>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins<hughd@...gle.com>
> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn<lee.schermerhorn@...com>
> Acked-by: Rik van Riel<riel@...hat.com>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Nathan T Zimmer<nzimmer@....com>
> ---
>   include/linux/shmem_fs.h |    1 +
>   mm/shmem.c               |    3 ++-
>   2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h b/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
> index bef2cf0..cfe8a34 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 */
> +	unsigned long           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 d576b84..69a47fb 100644
> --- a/mm/shmem.c
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> @@ -929,7 +929,7 @@ static struct page *shmem_alloc_page(gfp_t gfp,
>   	/*
>   	 * alloc_page_vma() will drop the shared policy reference
>   	 */
> -	return alloc_page_vma(gfp,&pvma, 0);
> +	return alloc_page_vma(gfp,&pvma, info->node_offset<<  PAGE_SHIFT );

3rd argument of alloc_page_vma() is an address. This is type error.



>   }
>   #else /* !CONFIG_NUMA */
>   #ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS
> @@ -1357,6 +1357,7 @@ 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);

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