cpusets: randomize node rotor used in cpuset_mem_spread_node()

Some workloads that create a large number of small files tend to assign
too many pages to node 0 (multi-node systems).  Part of the reason is that
the rotor (in cpuset_mem_spread_node()) used to assign nodes starts at
node 0 for newly created tasks.

This patch changes the rotor to be initialized to a random node number of
the cpuset.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix layout]
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Define stub numa_random() for !NUMA configuration]
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/numa.c b/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
index 550df481acc..10c27bb1e95 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #include <linux/topology.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/bootmem.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
 # define DBG(x...) printk(KERN_DEBUG x)
@@ -65,3 +66,19 @@ const struct cpumask *cpumask_of_node(int node)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpumask_of_node);
 #endif
+
+/*
+ * Return the bit number of a random bit set in the nodemask.
+ *   (returns -1 if nodemask is empty)
+ */
+int __node_random(const nodemask_t *maskp)
+{
+        int w, bit = -1;
+
+        w = nodes_weight(*maskp);
+        if (w)
+                bit = bitmap_ord_to_pos(maskp->bits,
+                        get_random_int() % w, MAX_NUMNODES);
+        return bit;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__node_random);