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| author | Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-07-26 19:41:14 +0400 |
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| committer | Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> | 2010-07-29 13:59:00 +0400 |
| commit | bc6488e91078af0b42ee0d8335e0587f64550d7d (patch) | |
| tree | 9adc2fc7fe0824054679ad273af8fe83be1f8269 /mm/slob.c | |
| parent | 7adde04a2f5a798f04a556dfb3b69bff388e5dc4 (diff) | |
| download | linux-bc6488e91078af0b42ee0d8335e0587f64550d7d.tar.xz | |
slub numa: Fix rare allocation from unexpected node
The network developers have seen sporadic allocations resulting in objects
coming from unexpected NUMA nodes despite asking for objects from a
specific node.
This is due to get_partial() calling get_any_partial() if partial
slabs are exhausted for a node even if a node was specified and therefore
one would expect allocations only from the specified node.
get_any_partial() sporadically may return a slab from a foreign
node to gradually reduce the size of partial lists on remote nodes
and thereby reduce total memory use for a slab cache.
The behavior is controlled by the remote_defrag_ratio of each cache.
Strictly speaking this is permitted behavior since __GFP_THISNODE was
not specified for the allocation but it is certain surprising.
This patch makes sure that the remote defrag behavior only occurs
if no node was specified.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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