commit 6adef3ebe570bcde67fd6c16101451ddde5712b5
author Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Wed May 26 14:42:49 2010 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Thu May 27 09:12:44 2010 -0700
tree 0f60e2a4d01850ae33aee6cefc7a59845ede89a0
parent 2c488db27b614816024e7994117f599337de0f34

cpusets: new round-robin rotor for SLAB allocations

We have observed several workloads running on multi-node systems where
memory is assigned unevenly across the nodes in the system.  There are
numerous reasons for this but one is the round-robin rotor in
cpuset_mem_spread_node().

For example, a simple test that writes a multi-page file will allocate
pages on nodes 0 2 4 6 ...  Odd nodes are skipped.  (Sometimes it
allocates on odd nodes & skips even nodes).

An example is shown below.  The program "lfile" writes a file consisting
of 10 pages.  The program then mmaps the file & uses get_mempolicy(...,
MPOL_F_NODE) to determine the nodes where the file pages were allocated.
The output is shown below:

	# ./lfile
	 allocated on nodes: 2 4 6 0 1 2 6 0 2

There is a single rotor that is used for allocating both file pages & slab
pages.  Writing the file allocates both a data page & a slab page
(buffer_head).  This advances the RR rotor 2 nodes for each page
allocated.

A quick confirmation seems to confirm this is the cause of the uneven
allocation:

	# echo 0 >/dev/cpuset/memory_spread_slab
	# ./lfile
	 allocated on nodes: 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5

This patch introduces a second rotor that is used for slab allocations.

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Acked-by: 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>
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 61d6af7..02b9611 100644
--- a/kernel/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cpuset.c
@@ -2469,7 +2469,8 @@
 }
 
 /**
- * cpuset_mem_spread_node() - On which node to begin search for a page
+ * cpuset_mem_spread_node() - On which node to begin search for a file page
+ * cpuset_slab_spread_node() - On which node to begin search for a slab page
  *
  * If a task is marked PF_SPREAD_PAGE or PF_SPREAD_SLAB (as for
  * tasks in a cpuset with is_spread_page or is_spread_slab set),
@@ -2494,16 +2495,27 @@
  * See kmem_cache_alloc_node().
  */
 
-int cpuset_mem_spread_node(void)
+static int cpuset_spread_node(int *rotor)
 {
 	int node;
 
-	node = next_node(current->cpuset_mem_spread_rotor, current->mems_allowed);
+	node = next_node(*rotor, current->mems_allowed);
 	if (node == MAX_NUMNODES)
 		node = first_node(current->mems_allowed);
-	current->cpuset_mem_spread_rotor = node;
+	*rotor = node;
 	return node;
 }
+
+int cpuset_mem_spread_node(void)
+{
+	return cpuset_spread_node(&current->cpuset_mem_spread_rotor);
+}
+
+int cpuset_slab_spread_node(void)
+{
+	return cpuset_spread_node(&current->cpuset_slab_spread_rotor);
+}
+
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpuset_mem_spread_node);
 
 /**