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Apply memory policies to top two highest zones when highest zone is ZONE_MOVABLE

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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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Mel Gorman 2007-08-22 14:02:05 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 8e92f21ba3
commit b377fd3982
4 changed files with 33 additions and 2 deletions
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2
include/linux/mempolicy.h
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@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ extern enum zone_type policy_zone;
static inline void check_highest_zone(enum zone_type k)
{
if (k > policy_zone)
if (k > policy_zone && k != ZONE_MOVABLE)
policy_zone = k;
}

18
include/linux/mmzone.h
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@ -410,6 +410,24 @@ struct zonelist {
#endif
};
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
/*
* Only custom zonelists like MPOL_BIND need to be filtered as part of
* policies. As described in the comment for struct zonelist_cache, these
* zonelists will not have a zlcache so zlcache_ptr will not be set. Use
* that to determine if the zonelists needs to be filtered or not.
*/
static inline int alloc_should_filter_zonelist(struct zonelist *zonelist)
{
return !zonelist->zlcache_ptr;
}
#else
static inline int alloc_should_filter_zonelist(struct zonelist *zonelist)
{
return 0;
}
#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA */
#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP
struct node_active_region {
unsigned long start_pfn;

2
mm/mempolicy.c
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@ -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];

13
mm/page_alloc.c
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@ -1157,6 +1157,7 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
nodemask_t *allowednodes = NULL;/* zonelist_cache approximation */
int zlc_active = 0; /* set if using zonelist_cache */
int did_zlc_setup = 0; /* just call zlc_setup() one time */
enum zone_type highest_zoneidx = -1; /* Gets set for policy zonelists */
zonelist_scan:
/*
@ -1166,6 +1167,18 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
z = zonelist->zones;
do {
/*
* In NUMA, this could be a policy zonelist which contains
* zones that may not be allowed by the current gfp_mask.
* Check the zone is allowed by the current flags
*/
if (unlikely(alloc_should_filter_zonelist(zonelist))) {
if (highest_zoneidx == -1)
highest_zoneidx = gfp_zone(gfp_mask);
if (zone_idx(*z) > highest_zoneidx)
continue;
}
if (NUMA_BUILD && zlc_active &&
!zlc_zone_worth_trying(zonelist, z, allowednodes))
continue;