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mm: default to node zonelist ordering when nodes have only lowmem 

There are two types of zonelist ordering methodologies:

 - node order, preferring allocations on a node to stay local to and

 - zone order, preferring allocations come from a higher zone to avoid
   allocating in lowmem zones even though they may not be local.

The ordering technique used by the kernel is configurable on the command
line, but also has some logic to determine what the default should be.

This logic currently lacks knowledge of systems where a node may only have
lowmem.  For such systems, it is necessary to use node order so that
GFP_KERNEL allocations may be satisfied by nodes consisting of only
lowmem.

If zone order is used, GFP_KERNEL allocations to such nodes are actually
allocated on a node with local affinity that includes ZONE_NORMAL.

This change defaults to node zonelist ordering if any node lacks
ZONE_NORMAL.

To force zone order, append 'numa_zonelist_order=zone' to the kernel
command line.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Rientjes 2010-05-24 14:32:13 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 1a5cb81465
commit e325c90ffc
1 changed files with 10 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -2606,7 +2606,7 @@ static int default_zonelist_order(void)
* ZONE_DMA and ZONE_DMA32 can be very small area in the system.
* If they are really small and used heavily, the system can fall
* into OOM very easily.
* This function detect ZONE_DMA/DMA32 size and confgigures zone order.
* This function detect ZONE_DMA/DMA32 size and configures zone order.
*/
/* Is there ZONE_NORMAL ? (ex. ppc has only DMA zone..) */
low_kmem_size = 0;
@ -2618,6 +2618,15 @@ static int default_zonelist_order(void)
if (zone_type < ZONE_NORMAL)
low_kmem_size += z->present_pages;
total_size += z->present_pages;
} else if (zone_type == ZONE_NORMAL) {
/*
* If any node has only lowmem, then node order
* is preferred to allow kernel allocations
* locally; otherwise, they can easily infringe
* on other nodes when there is an abundance of
* lowmem available to allocate from.
*/
return ZONELIST_ORDER_NODE;
}
}
}