linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] Use one zonelist that is filtered by nodemask

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711090741120.13932@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Fri, 9 Nov 2007 07:45:33 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Lee.Schermerhorn@...com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	rientjes@...gle.com, nacc@...ibm.com,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] Use one zonelist that is filtered by nodemask

On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Mel Gorman wrote:

>  struct page * fastcall
>  __alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
>  		struct zonelist *zonelist)
>  {
> +	/*
> +	 * Use a temporary nodemask for __GFP_THISNODE allocations. If the
> +	 * cost of allocating on the stack or the stack usage becomes
> +	 * noticable, allocate the nodemasks per node at boot or compile time
> +	 */
> +	if (unlikely(gfp_mask & __GFP_THISNODE)) {
> +		nodemask_t nodemask;

Hmmm.. This places a potentially big structure on the stack. nodemask can 
contain up to 1024 bits which means 128 bytes. Maybe keep an array of 
gfp_thisnode nodemasks (node_nodemask?) and use node_nodemask[nid]?

> +
> +		return __alloc_pages_internal(gfp_mask, order,
> +			zonelist, nodemask_thisnode(numa_node_id(), &nodemask));

Argh.... GFP_THISNODE must use the nid passed to alloc_pages_node and 
*not* the local numa node id. Only if the node specified to alloc_pages 
nodes is -1 will this work.

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