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, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/nodemask.h b/include/linux/nodemask.h
index dba35e413371..8a8f1d09c133 100644
--- a/include/linux/nodemask.h
+++ b/include/linux/nodemask.h
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@
  * int num_online_nodes()               Number of online Nodes
  * int num_possible_nodes()             Number of all possible Nodes
  *
+ * int node_random(mask)                Random node with set bit in mask
+ *
  * int node_online(node)                Is some node online?
  * int node_possible(node)              Is some node possible?
  *
@@ -430,6 +432,10 @@ static inline void node_set_offline(int nid)
         node_clear_state(nid, N_ONLINE);
         nr_online_nodes = num_node_state(N_ONLINE);
 }
+
+#define node_random(mask) __node_random(&(mask))
+extern int __node_random(const nodemask_t *maskp);
+
 #else
 
 static inline int node_state(int node, enum node_states state)
@@ -460,6 +466,8 @@ static inline int num_node_state(enum node_states state)
 
 #define node_set_online(node)      node_set_state((node), N_ONLINE)
 #define node_set_offline(node)     node_clear_state((node), N_ONLINE)
+
+static inline int node_random(const nodemask_t mask) { return 0; }
 #endif
 
 #define node_online_map         node_states[N_ONLINE]