Re: [RFC PATCH 16/20] mm: Allocate kswapd on its node

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Wed Jul 31 2024 - 11:14:00 EST


On 7/26/24 11:56 PM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> kswapd runs preferrably on a specific node. Allocate its task
> structure accordingly for better memory locality.
>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

also squashable to the previous one

> ---
> mm/vmscan.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 94359a893b4f..adf8c1e7e89d 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -7284,7 +7284,7 @@ void __meminit kswapd_run(int nid)
>
> pgdat_kswapd_lock(pgdat);
> if (!pgdat->kswapd) {
> - pgdat->kswapd = kthread_create(kswapd, pgdat, "kswapd%d", nid);
> + pgdat->kswapd = kthread_create_on_node(kswapd, pgdat, nid, "kswapd%d", nid);
> if (IS_ERR(pgdat->kswapd)) {
> /* failure at boot is fatal */
> pr_err("Failed to start kswapd on node %d,ret=%ld\n",