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mm: filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask

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The MPOL_BIND policy creates a zonelist that is used for allocations
controlled by that mempolicy.  As the per-node zonelist is already being
filtered based on a zone id, this patch adds a version of __alloc_pages() that
takes a nodemask for further filtering.  This eliminates the need for
MPOL_BIND to create a custom zonelist.

A positive benefit of this is that allocations using MPOL_BIND now use the
local node's distance-ordered zonelist instead of a custom node-id-ordered
zonelist.  I.e., pages will be allocated from the closest allowed node with
available memory.

[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: update stale documentation and comments]
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: make dequeue_huge_page_vma() obey MPOL_BIND nodemask]
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: make dequeue_huge_page_vma() obey MPOL_BIND nodemask rework]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman
2008-04-28 02:12:18 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent dd1a239f6f
commit 19770b3260
11 changed files with 224 additions and 191 deletions
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include/linux/mempolicy.h
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@ -54,19 +54,20 @@ struct mm_struct;
* mmap_sem.
*
* Freeing policy:
* When policy is MPOL_BIND v.zonelist is kmalloc'ed and must be kfree'd.
* All other policies don't have any external state. mpol_free() handles this.
* Mempolicy objects are reference counted. A mempolicy will be freed when
* mpol_free() decrements the reference count to zero.
*
* Copying policy objects:
* For MPOL_BIND the zonelist must be always duplicated. mpol_clone() does this.
* mpol_copy() allocates a new mempolicy and copies the specified mempolicy
* to the new storage. The reference count of the new object is initialized
* to 1, representing the caller of mpol_copy().
*/
struct mempolicy {
atomic_t refcnt;
short policy; /* See MPOL_* above */
union {
struct zonelist *zonelist; /* bind */
short preferred_node; /* preferred */
nodemask_t nodes; /* interleave */
nodemask_t nodes; /* interleave/bind */
/* undefined for default */
} v;
nodemask_t cpuset_mems_allowed; /* mempolicy relative to these nodes */
@ -151,7 +152,8 @@ extern void mpol_fix_fork_child_flag(struct task_struct *p);
extern struct mempolicy default_policy;
extern struct zonelist *huge_zonelist(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr, gfp_t gfp_flags, struct mempolicy **mpol);
unsigned long addr, gfp_t gfp_flags,
struct mempolicy **mpol, nodemask_t **nodemask);
extern unsigned slab_node(struct mempolicy *policy);
extern enum zone_type policy_zone;
@ -239,8 +241,11 @@ static inline void mpol_fix_fork_child_flag(struct task_struct *p)
}
static inline struct zonelist *huge_zonelist(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr, gfp_t gfp_flags, struct mempolicy **mpol)
unsigned long addr, gfp_t gfp_flags,
struct mempolicy **mpol, nodemask_t **nodemask)
{
*mpol = NULL;
*nodemask = NULL;
return node_zonelist(0, gfp_flags);
}