Commit 96df9333 authored Jan 06, 2006 by Christoph Lameter Committed by Linus Torvalds Jan 06, 2006

[PATCH] mm: dequeue a huge page near to this node

This was discussed at
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113166526217117&w=2



This patch changes the dequeueing to select a huge page near the node
executing instead of always beginning to check for free nodes from node 0.
This will result in a placement of the huge pages near the executing
processor improving performance.

The existing implementation can place the huge pages far away from the
executing processor causing significant degradation of performance.  The
search starting from zero also means that the lower zones quickly run out
of memory.  Selecting a huge page near the process distributed the huge
pages better.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent 1e8f889b

mm/hugetlb.c

+8 −6

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -40,14 +40,16 @@ static struct page *dequeue_huge_page(void)
		{
		int nid = numa_node_id();
		struct page *page = NULL;
		struct zonelist *zonelist = NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zonelists;
		struct zone **z;

		if (list_empty(&hugepage_freelists[nid])) {
		for (nid = 0; nid < MAX_NUMNODES; ++nid)
		for (z = zonelist->zones; *z; z++) {
		nid = (*z)->zone_pgdat->node_id;
		if (!list_empty(&hugepage_freelists[nid]))
		break;
		}
		if (nid >= 0 && nid < MAX_NUMNODES &&
		!list_empty(&hugepage_freelists[nid])) {

		if (*z) {
		page = list_entry(hugepage_freelists[nid].next,
		struct page, lru);
		list_del(&page->lru);

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