cpusets: randomize node rotor used in cpuset_mem_spread_node()

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>

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/numa.c b/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
index 550df481accd58d8ce23e7c96549f0507b1365b8..10c27bb1e95fd15aacba23ce8a68701b8778b2ad 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #include <linux/topology.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/bootmem.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
 # define DBG(x...) printk(KERN_DEBUG x)
@@ -65,3 +66,19 @@ const struct cpumask *cpumask_of_node(int node)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpumask_of_node);
 #endif
+
+/*
+ * Return the bit number of a random bit set in the nodemask.
+ *   (returns -1 if nodemask is empty)
+ */
+int __node_random(const nodemask_t *maskp)
+{
+       int w, bit = -1;
+
+       w = nodes_weight(*maskp);
+       if (w)
+               bit = bitmap_ord_to_pos(maskp->bits,
+                       get_random_int() % w, MAX_NUMNODES);
+       return bit;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__node_random);

diff --git a/include/linux/bitmap.h b/include/linux/bitmap.h
index daf8c480c7867e9a60f3cdd715e9b4a8c030942c..6fb2720882fc9c50f1db491c4ec90460c59f2749 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/bitmap.h
+++ b/include/linux/bitmap.h
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ extern int bitmap_find_free_region(unsigned long *bitmap, int bits, int order);
 extern void bitmap_release_region(unsigned long *bitmap, int pos, int order);
 extern int bitmap_allocate_region(unsigned long *bitmap, int pos, int order);
 extern void bitmap_copy_le(void *dst, const unsigned long *src, int nbits);
+extern int bitmap_ord_to_pos(const unsigned long *bitmap, int n, int bits);
 
 #define BITMAP_LAST_WORD_MASK(nbits)                                   \
 (                                                                      \

diff --git a/include/linux/nodemask.h b/include/linux/nodemask.h
index dba35e413371e599045d41134003a1ef8713fd38..8a8f1d09c1336dce6076335b5a181c5bfc131120 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/nodemask.h
+++ b/include/linux/nodemask.h
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@
  * int num_online_nodes()              Number of online Nodes
  * int num_possible_nodes()            Number of all possible Nodes
  *
+ * int node_random(mask)               Random node with set bit in mask
+ *
  * int node_online(node)               Is some node online?
  * int node_possible(node)             Is some node possible?
  *
@@ -430,6 +432,10 @@ static inline void node_set_offline(int nid)
        node_clear_state(nid, N_ONLINE);
        nr_online_nodes = num_node_state(N_ONLINE);
 }
+
+#define node_random(mask) __node_random(&(mask))
+extern int __node_random(const nodemask_t *maskp);
+
 #else
 
 static inline int node_state(int node, enum node_states state)
@@ -460,6 +466,8 @@ static inline int num_node_state(enum node_states state)
 
 #define node_set_online(node)     node_set_state((node), N_ONLINE)
 #define node_set_offline(node)    node_clear_state((node), N_ONLINE)
+
+static inline int node_random(const nodemask_t mask) { return 0; }
 #endif
 
 #define node_online_map        node_states[N_ONLINE]

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 4d57d9e3a6e992a9d0a3514138008a0d8aefaeff..2e9cc3139ec68ee5ea3a79279788fae9db143dbb 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -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

diff --git a/lib/bitmap.c b/lib/bitmap.c
index ffb78c916ccdf85ffb0d8ec7d0f3f1e4f41ab3ef..d7137e7e06e8b082c29fd1a186d07afbb8f32b16 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/bitmap.c
+++ b/lib/bitmap.c
@@ -672,7 +672,7 @@ static int bitmap_pos_to_ord(const unsigned long *buf, int pos, int bits)
  *
  * The bit positions 0 through @bits are valid positions in @buf.
  */
-static int bitmap_ord_to_pos(const unsigned long *buf, int ord, int bits)
+int bitmap_ord_to_pos(const unsigned long *buf, int ord, int bits)
 {
        int pos = 0;