Re: [PATCH] cpuset: mm: Reduce large amounts of memory barrier relateddamage v3

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Mon Aug 26 2013 - 01:33:37 EST


On 08/23/2013 02:15 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> So I guess the quick and ugly solution is something like the below.

This still crashes :)

> --- a/mm/mempolicy.c
> +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
> @@ -1762,19 +1762,21 @@ unsigned slab_node(void)
> static unsigned offset_il_node(struct mempolicy *pol,
> struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long off)
> {
> - unsigned nnodes = nodes_weight(pol->v.nodes);
> - unsigned target;
> - int c;
> - int nid = -1;
> + unsigned nnodes, target;
> + int c, nid;
>
> +again:
> + nnodes = nodes_weight(pol->v.nodes);
> if (!nnodes)
> return numa_node_id();
> +
> target = (unsigned int)off % nnodes;
> - c = 0;
> - do {
> + for (c = 0, nid = -1; c <= target; c++)
> nid = next_node(nid, pol->v.nodes);
> - c++;
> - } while (c <= target);
> +
> + if (unlikely((unsigned)nid >= MAX_NUMNODES))
> + goto again;

I'll go kick off a compile that replaces the conditional above with:

if (unlikely(!node_online(nid)))
goto again;

> return nid;
> }


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