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authorNathan Zimmer <[email protected]>2012-07-31 16:46:17 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2012-07-31 18:42:50 -0700
commit09c231cb8bfdc35e7d896850d34440b8553b084f (patch)
treef9a9dcc93c875253e0d879329b1f955b1a08638f
parent6527af5d1bea219d64095a5e30c1b1e0868aae16 (diff)
tmpfs: distribute interleave better across nodes
When tmpfs has the interleave memory policy, it always starts allocating for each file from node 0 at offset 0. When there are many small files, the lower nodes fill up disproportionately. This patch spreads out node usage by starting files at nodes other than 0, by using the inode number to bias the starting node for interleave. Signed-off-by: Nathan Zimmer <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Cc: Nick Piggin <[email protected]> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <[email protected]> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]> Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--mm/shmem.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index c15b998e5a86..d4e184e2a38e 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -929,7 +929,8 @@ static struct page *shmem_swapin(swp_entry_t swap, gfp_t gfp,
/* Create a pseudo vma that just contains the policy */
pvma.vm_start = 0;
- pvma.vm_pgoff = index;
+ /* Bias interleave by inode number to distribute better across nodes */
+ pvma.vm_pgoff = index + info->vfs_inode.i_ino;
pvma.vm_ops = NULL;
pvma.vm_policy = spol;
return swapin_readahead(swap, gfp, &pvma, 0);
@@ -942,7 +943,8 @@ static struct page *shmem_alloc_page(gfp_t gfp,
/* Create a pseudo vma that just contains the policy */
pvma.vm_start = 0;
- pvma.vm_pgoff = index;
+ /* Bias interleave by inode number to distribute better across nodes */
+ pvma.vm_pgoff = index + info->vfs_inode.i_ino;
pvma.vm_ops = NULL;
pvma.vm_policy = mpol_shared_policy_lookup(&info->policy, index);