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cpusets: randomize node rotor used in cpuset_mem_spread_node()

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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]
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.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>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jack Steiner 2010-05-26 14:42:51 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 6adef3ebe5
commit 0ac0c0d0f8
5 changed files with 31 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -1079,6 +1079,10 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
}
mpol_fix_fork_child_flag(p);
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_CPUSETS
p->cpuset_mem_spread_rotor = node_random(p->mems_allowed);
p->cpuset_slab_spread_rotor = node_random(p->mems_allowed);
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS
p->irq_events = 0;
#ifdef __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW