Re: [PATCH 02/18] sched: Track NUMA hinting faults on per-node basis

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Jul 29 2013 - 06:11:24 EST


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 04:20:04PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -815,7 +815,14 @@ void task_numa_fault(int node, int pages, bool migrated)
> if (!sched_feat_numa(NUMA))
> return;
>
> - /* FIXME: Allocate task-specific structure for placement policy here */
> + /* Allocate buffer to track faults on a per-node basis */
> + if (unlikely(!p->numa_faults)) {
> + int size = sizeof(*p->numa_faults) * nr_node_ids;
> +
> + p->numa_faults = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);

We should probably stick a __GFP_NOWARN in there.

> + if (!p->numa_faults)
> + return;
> + }
>
> /*
> * If pages are properly placed (did not migrate) then scan slower.
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