From b377fd3982ad957c796758a90e2988401a884241 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:02:05 -0700 Subject: Apply memory policies to top two highest zones when highest zone is ZONE_MOVABLE 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 Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn Tested-by: Lee Schermerhorn Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Paul Mundt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/page_alloc.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c') diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 3da85b81dabb..6427653023aa 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -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 @@ zonelist_scan: 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; -- cgit v1.2.2