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Memoryless nodes: Fix GFP_THISNODE behavior

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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>
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Christoph Lameter 2007-10-16 01:25:37 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 633c0666b5
commit 523b945855
3 changed files with 48 additions and 11 deletions
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include/linux/mmzone.h
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@ -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;