From: Andi Kleen Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 22:13:35 +0000 (-0700) Subject: memcg: allocate memory cgroup structures in local nodes X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=21a3c96;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git memcg: allocate memory cgroup structures in local nodes Commit dde79e005a769 ("page_cgroup: reduce allocation overhead for page_cgroup array for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM") added a regression that the memory cgroup data structures all end up in node 0 because the first attempt at allocating them would not pass in a node hint. Since the initialization runs on CPU #0 it would all end up node 0. This is a problem on large memory systems, where node 0 would lose a lot of memory. Change the alloc_pages_exact() to alloc_pages_exact_nid(). This will still fall back to other nodes if not enough memory is available. [ RED-PEN: right now it would fall back first before trying vmalloc_node. Probably not the best strategy ... But I left it like that for now. ] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Reported-by: Doug Nelson Cc: David Rientjes Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Balbir Singh Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/mm/page_cgroup.c b/mm/page_cgroup.c index 99055010cece..2daadc322ba6 100644 --- a/mm/page_cgroup.c +++ b/mm/page_cgroup.c @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ static void *__init_refok alloc_page_cgroup(size_t size, int nid) { void *addr = NULL; - addr = alloc_pages_exact(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN); + addr = alloc_pages_exact_nid(nid, size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN); if (addr) return addr;