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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2015-05-14 15:17:09 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-05-14 17:55:51 -0700
commitb0dc2b9bb4ab782115b964310518ee0b17784277 (patch)
tree9c5a6ec323e2854b2b72fe7765c66e26869ddb5c
parentb77017555ce514262abcb28a0ff3cc065d4acfb8 (diff)
downloadlinux-b0dc2b9bb4ab782115b964310518ee0b17784277.tar.bz2
mm, numa: really disable NUMA balancing by default on single node machines
NUMA balancing is meant to be disabled by default on UMA machines but the check is using nr_node_ids (highest node) instead of num_online_nodes (online nodes). The consequences are that a UMA machine with a node ID of 1 or higher will enable NUMA balancing. This will incur useless overhead due to minor faults with the impact depending on the workload. These are the impact on the stats when running a kernel build on a single node machine whose node ID happened to be 1: vanilla patched NUMA base PTE updates 5113158 0 NUMA huge PMD updates 643 0 NUMA page range updates 5442374 0 NUMA hint faults 2109622 0 NUMA hint local faults 2109622 0 NUMA hint local percent 100 100 NUMA pages migrated 0 0 Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.8+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--mm/mempolicy.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index ede26291d4aa..747743237d9f 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2518,7 +2518,7 @@ static void __init check_numabalancing_enable(void)
if (numabalancing_override)
set_numabalancing_state(numabalancing_override == 1);
- if (nr_node_ids > 1 && !numabalancing_override) {
+ if (num_online_nodes() > 1 && !numabalancing_override) {
pr_info("%s automatic NUMA balancing. "
"Configure with numa_balancing= or the "
"kernel.numa_balancing sysctl",