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authorJack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>2010-05-26 14:42:51 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-05-27 09:12:44 -0700
commit0ac0c0d0f837c499afd02a802f9cf52d3027fa3b (patch)
treec20a7306d4b727722556af1aa5565855686aee07 /arch/x86
parent6adef3ebe570bcde67fd6c16101451ddde5712b5 (diff)
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/numa.c17
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/numa.c b/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
index 550df48..10c27bb 100644
--- 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);
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