commit 778d3b0ff0654ad7092bf823fd32010066b12365
author Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Tue Jul 26 16:08:30 2011 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Tue Jul 26 16:49:43 2011 -0700
tree cd0073d8c513e1c56fd6950c4ec985f16fd004ad
parent 8521fc50d433507a7cdc96bec280f9e5888a54cc

cpusets: randomize node rotor used in cpuset_mem_spread_node()

[ This patch has already been accepted as commit 0ac0c0d0f837 but later
  reverted (commit 35926ff5fba8) because it itroduced arch specific
  __node_random which was defined only for x86 code so it broke other
  archs.  This is a followup without any arch specific code.  Other than
  that there are no functional changes.]

Some workloads that create a large number of small files tend to assign
too many pages to node 0 (multi-node systems).  Part of the reason is
that the rotor (in cpuset_mem_spread_node()) used to assign nodes starts
at node 0 for newly created tasks.

This patch changes the rotor to be initialized to a random node number
of the cpuset.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix layout]
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Define stub numa_random() for !NUMA configuration]
[mhocko@suse.cz: Make it arch independent]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_NUMA=y, MAX_NUMNODES>1 build]
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

kernel/cpuset.c

diff --git a/kernel/cpuset.c b/kernel/cpuset.c
index 9c9b754..f8bc977 100644
--- a/kernel/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cpuset.c
@@ -2460,11 +2460,19 @@
 
 int cpuset_mem_spread_node(void)
 {
+	if (current->cpuset_mem_spread_rotor == NUMA_NO_NODE)
+		current->cpuset_mem_spread_rotor =
+			node_random(&current->mems_allowed);
+
 	return cpuset_spread_node(&current->cpuset_mem_spread_rotor);
 }
 
 int cpuset_slab_spread_node(void)
 {
+	if (current->cpuset_slab_spread_rotor == NUMA_NO_NODE)
+		current->cpuset_slab_spread_rotor =
+			node_random(&current->mems_allowed);
+
 	return cpuset_spread_node(&current->cpuset_slab_spread_rotor);
 }