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authorChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>2007-10-16 01:25:37 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-16 09:42:59 -0700
commit523b945855a1427000ffc707c610abe5947ae607 (patch)
tree2d84b5b6822a2a20bfd79146c08ce06ac8c80b9b /include/linux/mmzone.h
parent633c0666b5a5c41c376a5a7e4304d638dc48c1b9 (diff)
Memoryless nodes: Fix GFP_THISNODE behavior
GFP_THISNODE checks that the zone selected is within the pgdat (node) of the first zone of a nodelist. That only works if the node has memory. A memoryless node will have its first node on another pgdat (node). GFP_THISNODE currently will return simply memory on the first pgdat. Thus it is returning memory on other nodes. GFP_THISNODE should fail if there is no local memory on a node. Add a new set of zonelists for each node that only contain the nodes that belong to the zones itself so that no fallback is possible. Then modify gfp_type to pickup the right zone based on the presence of __GFP_THISNODE. Drop the existing GFP_THISNODE checks from the page_allocators hot path. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mmzone.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mmzone.h14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index f21e5951038b..f6167f2fd7fb 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -324,6 +324,17 @@ struct zone {
#define MAX_ZONES_PER_ZONELIST (MAX_NUMNODES * MAX_NR_ZONES)
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
+
+/*
+ * The NUMA zonelists are doubled becausse we need zonelists that restrict the
+ * allocations to a single node for GFP_THISNODE.
+ *
+ * [0 .. MAX_NR_ZONES -1] : Zonelists with fallback
+ * [MAZ_NR_ZONES ... MAZ_ZONELISTS -1] : No fallback (GFP_THISNODE)
+ */
+#define MAX_ZONELISTS (2 * MAX_NR_ZONES)
+
+
/*
* We cache key information from each zonelist for smaller cache
* footprint when scanning for free pages in get_page_from_freelist().
@@ -389,6 +400,7 @@ struct zonelist_cache {
unsigned long last_full_zap; /* when last zap'd (jiffies) */
};
#else
+#define MAX_ZONELISTS MAX_NR_ZONES
struct zonelist_cache;
#endif
@@ -455,7 +467,7 @@ extern struct page *mem_map;
struct bootmem_data;
typedef struct pglist_data {
struct zone node_zones[MAX_NR_ZONES];
- struct zonelist node_zonelists[MAX_NR_ZONES];
+ struct zonelist node_zonelists[MAX_ZONELISTS];
int nr_zones;
#ifdef CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP
struct page *node_mem_map;