Re: [RESEND PATCH] slub: search partial list on numa_mem_id(), instead of numa_node_id()

From: David Rientjes
Date: Wed Jun 04 2014 - 20:13:52 EST


On Wed, 21 May 2014, Joonsoo Kim wrote:

> Currently, if allocation constraint to node is NUMA_NO_NODE, we search
> a partial slab on numa_node_id() node. This doesn't work properly on the
> system having memoryless node, since it can have no memory on that node and
> there must be no partial slab on that node.
>
> On that node, page allocation always fallback to numa_mem_id() first. So
> searching a partial slab on numa_node_id() in that case is proper solution
> for memoryless node case.
>
> Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index 545a170..cc1f995 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -1698,7 +1698,7 @@ static void *get_partial(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int node,
> struct kmem_cache_cpu *c)
> {
> void *object;
> - int searchnode = (node == NUMA_NO_NODE) ? numa_node_id() : node;
> + int searchnode = (node == NUMA_NO_NODE) ? numa_mem_id() : node;
>
> object = get_partial_node(s, get_node(s, searchnode), c, flags);
> if (object || node != NUMA_NO_NODE)

Andrew, can you merge this please? It's still not in linux-next.
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