linux-kernel - Re: is this a problem of numactl in RedHat7.0 ?

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Message-ID: <55D78FB0.9040906@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 21 Aug 2015 16:53:04 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
CC:	Xiexiuqi <xiexiuqi@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: is this a problem of numactl in RedHat7.0 ?

On 08/21/2015 05:27 AM, Xishi Qiu wrote:
> I use numactl(--localalloc) tool run a test case, but it shows that
> the numa policy is prefer, I don't know why.

The kernel implements MPOL_PREFERRED and MPOL_LOCAL
in the same way. Look at this code in mpol_new(),
in mm/mempolicy.c:

         /*
          * MPOL_PREFERRED cannot be used with MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES or
          * MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES if the nodemask is empty (local 
allocation).
          * All other modes require a valid pointer to a non-empty nodemask.
          */
         if (mode == MPOL_PREFERRED) {
                 if (nodes_empty(*nodes)) {
                         if (((flags & MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES) ||
                              (flags & MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES)))
                                 return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
                 }
         } else if (mode == MPOL_LOCAL) {
                 if (!nodes_empty(*nodes))
                         return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
                 mode = MPOL_PREFERRED;
         } else if (nodes_empty(*nodes))
                 return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);


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