Apply memory policies to top two highest zones when highest zone is ZONE_MOVABLE
The NUMA layer only supports NUMA policies for the highest zone. When
ZONE_MOVABLE is configured with kernelcore=, the the highest zone becomes
ZONE_MOVABLE. The result is that policies are only applied to allocations
like anonymous pages and page cache allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE when the
zone is used.
This patch applies policies to the two highest zones when the highest zone
is ZONE_MOVABLE. As ZONE_MOVABLE consists of pages from the highest "real"
zone, it's always functionally equivalent.
The patch has been tested on a variety of machines both NUMA and non-NUMA
covering x86, x86_64 and ppc64. No abnormal results were seen in
kernbench, tbench, dbench or hackbench. It passes regression tests from
the numactl package with and without kernelcore= once numactl tests are
patched to wait for vmstat counters to update.
akpm: this is the nasty hack to fix NUMA mempolicies in the presence of
ZONE_MOVABLE and kernelcore= in 2.6.23. Christoph says "For .24 either merge
the mobility or get the other solution that Mel is working on. That solution
would only use a single zonelist per node and filter on the fly. That may
help performance and also help to make memory policies work better."
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Tested-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 3ea68cd..4e56273 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -410,6 +410,24 @@
#endif
};
+#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
+/*
+ * Only custom zonelists like MPOL_BIND need to be filtered as part of
+ * policies. As described in the comment for struct zonelist_cache, these
+ * zonelists will not have a zlcache so zlcache_ptr will not be set. Use
+ * that to determine if the zonelists needs to be filtered or not.
+ */
+static inline int alloc_should_filter_zonelist(struct zonelist *zonelist)
+{
+ return !zonelist->zlcache_ptr;
+}
+#else
+static inline int alloc_should_filter_zonelist(struct zonelist *zonelist)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA */
+
#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP
struct node_active_region {
unsigned long start_pfn;