linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Allocate shrinker

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Date:   Mon, 3 Feb 2020 12:31:13 +0300
From:   Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        hannes@...xchg.org, shakeelb@...gle.com, vdavydov.dev@...il.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Allocate shrinker_map on appropriate NUMA node

On 31.01.2020 19:18, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 31-01-20 19:08:49, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
>> mm: Allocate shrinker_map on appropriate NUMA node
>>
>> From: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
>>
>> Despite shrinker_map may be touched from any cpu
>> (e.g., a bit there may be set by a task running
>> everywhere); kswapd is always bound to specific
>> node. So, we will allocate shrinker_map from
>> related NUMA node to respect its NUMA locality.
>> Also, this follows generic way we use for allocation
>> memcg's per-node data.
> 
> I would just drop the last sentence.

I mean we allocate memcg->nodeinfo from specific node,
so shrinker_map also should follow this rule. Though,
I have no objections to remove this on patch merge.

>> Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>

Thanks,
Kirill.