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| author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> | 2015-05-14 15:17:09 -0700 |
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| committer | Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com> | 2015-05-28 10:00:03 +0100 |
| commit | 597bb1759c9fdd92532b0e87588274ac4f992dc6 (patch) | |
| tree | ac2f71c9ed5cd998c9697f0a3be0d6b869fab0a6 /mm/mempolicy.c | |
| parent | 6dbab50c30917af5e9baf42814b3ec928ac43d58 (diff) | |
mm, numa: really disable NUMA balancing by default on single node machines
commit b0dc2b9bb4ab782115b964310518ee0b17784277 upstream.
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>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mempolicy.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/mempolicy.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index 8f5330d74f47..7832affffda5 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -2560,7 +2560,7 @@ 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", |