From e2cb96b7ecba46888cf00252ffdb8ef1e92c4258 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Lameter Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:51:22 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] slub: Disable NUMA remote node defragmentation by default Switch remote node defragmentation off by default. The current settings can cause excessive node local allocations with hackbench: SLAB: % cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 7701760 kB MemFree: 5940096 kB Slab: 123840 kB SLUB: % cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 7701376 kB MemFree: 4740928 kB Slab: 1591680 kB [Note: this feature is not related to slab defragmentation.] You can find the original discussion here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/4/308 Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg --- mm/slub.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index 4f5b96149458..fb486d5540f8 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -2312,7 +2312,7 @@ static int kmem_cache_open(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags, s->refcount = 1; #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA - s->remote_node_defrag_ratio = 100; + s->remote_node_defrag_ratio = 1000; #endif if (!init_kmem_cache_nodes(s, gfpflags & ~SLUB_DMA)) goto error; @@ -4058,7 +4058,7 @@ static ssize_t remote_node_defrag_ratio_store(struct kmem_cache *s, if (err) return err; - if (ratio < 100) + if (ratio <= 100) s->remote_node_defrag_ratio = ratio * 10; return length; -- 2.20.1