Re: [PATCH] mm/zswap : NUMA aware allocation for zswap_dstmem

From: Seth Jennings
Date: Wed May 28 2014 - 23:50:49 EST


On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 09:55:49AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> zswap_dstmem is a percpu block of memory, which should
> be allocated using kmalloc_node(), to get better NUMA
> locality.
>
> Without it, all the blocks are allocated from a single node.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Seth Jennings <sjennings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> mm/zswap.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
> index aeaef0fb5624..008388fe7b0f 100644
> --- a/mm/zswap.c
> +++ b/mm/zswap.c
> @@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ static int __zswap_cpu_notifier(unsigned long action, unsigned long cpu)
> return NOTIFY_BAD;
> }
> *per_cpu_ptr(zswap_comp_pcpu_tfms, cpu) = tfm;
> - dst = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE * 2, GFP_KERNEL);
> + dst = kmalloc_node(PAGE_SIZE * 2, GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
> if (!dst) {
> pr_err("can't allocate compressor buffer\n");
> crypto_free_comp(tfm);
>
>
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