Re: [PATCH] sunrpc: use better NUMA affinities

[Eric Dumazet]

Le vendredi 29 juillet 2011 Ã 12:42 -0400, J. Bruce Fields a Ãcrit :
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 08:04:09PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > Use NUMA aware allocations to reduce latencies and increase throughput.
> > 
> > sunrpc kthreads can use kthread_create_on_node() if pool_mode is
> > "percpu" or "pernode", and svc_prepare_thread()/svc_init_buffer() can
> > also take into account NUMA node affinity for memory allocations.
> ...
> > @@ -662,14 +675,16 @@ svc_set_num_threads(struct svc_serv *serv, struct svc_pool *pool, int nrservs)
> >  		nrservs--;
> >  		chosen_pool = choose_pool(serv, pool, &state);
> >  
> > -		rqstp = svc_prepare_thread(serv, chosen_pool);
> > +		node = svc_pool_map_get_node(chosen_pool->sp_id);
> > +		rqstp = svc_prepare_thread(serv, chosen_pool, node);
> 
> The only correct value for the third argument there is
> svc_pool_map_get_node(chosen_pool->sp_id), so let's have
> svc_prepare_thread() call that itself.
> 

I have no idea of what you mean ;)

I need 'node' for the following kthread_create_on_node()


> Seems OK otherwise.
> 
> Any suggestions on how we should test this?

I did tests on my machine, seems good.

I checked that stacks were now correct using :
"echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger"



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