mm: NUMA aware alloc_task_struct_node()

All kthreads being created from a single helper task, they all use memory
from a single node for their kernel stack and task struct.

This patch suite creates kthread_create_on_cpu(), adding a 'cpu' parameter
to parameters already used by kthread_create().

This parameter serves in allocating memory for the new kthread on its
memory node if available.

Users of this new function are : ksoftirqd, kworker, migration, pktgend...

This patch:

Add a node parameter to alloc_task_struct(), and change its name to
alloc_task_struct_node()

This change is needed to allow NUMA aware kthread_create_on_cpu()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 05b92c4..cffbe8a 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -109,8 +109,10 @@ int nr_processes(void)
 }
 
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
-# define alloc_task_struct()	kmem_cache_alloc(task_struct_cachep, GFP_KERNEL)
-# define free_task_struct(tsk)	kmem_cache_free(task_struct_cachep, (tsk))
+# define alloc_task_struct_node(node)		\
+		kmem_cache_alloc_node(task_struct_cachep, GFP_KERNEL, node)
+# define free_task_struct(tsk)			\
+		kmem_cache_free(task_struct_cachep, (tsk))
 static struct kmem_cache *task_struct_cachep;
 #endif
 
@@ -249,12 +251,12 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *orig)
 	struct task_struct *tsk;
 	struct thread_info *ti;
 	unsigned long *stackend;
-
+	int node = numa_node_id();
 	int err;
 
 	prepare_to_copy(orig);
 
-	tsk = alloc_task_struct();
+	tsk = alloc_task_struct_node(node);
 	if (!tsk)
 		return NULL;