Re: [PATCH] bounds: Support non-power-of-two CONFIG_NR_CPUS

[Mel Gorman]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 03:55:49PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> ilog2() rounds down, so for example when PowerPC 85xx sets CONFIG_NR_CPUS
> to 24, we will only allocate 4 bits to store the number of CPUs instead
> of 5.  Use bits_per() instead, which rounds up.  Found by code inspection.
> The effect of this would probably be a misaccounting when doing NUMA
> balancing, so to a user, it would only be a performance penalty.
> The effects may be more wide-spread; it's hard to tell.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 90572890d202 ("mm: numa: Change page last {nid,pid} into {cpu,pid}")
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs