On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:09:07AM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>Hi Christoph,
>On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 04:13:30PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>>On Mon, 20 Jan 2014, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>>
>>> >+ enum zone_type high_zoneidx = gfp_zone(flags);
>>> >
>>> >+ if (!node_present_pages(searchnode)) {
>>> >+ zonelist = node_zonelist(searchnode, flags);
>>> >+ for_each_zone_zonelist(zone, z, zonelist, high_zoneidx) {
>>> >+ searchnode = zone_to_nid(zone);
>>> >+ if (node_present_pages(searchnode))
>>> >+ break;
>>> >+ }
>>> >+ }
>>> > object = get_partial_node(s, get_node(s, searchnode), c, flags);
>>> > if (object || node != NUMA_NO_NODE)
>>> > return object;
>>> >
>>>
>>> The patch fix the bug. However, the kernel crashed very quickly after
>>> running
>>> stress tests for a short while:
>>
>>This is not a good way of fixing it. How about not asking for memory from
>>nodes that are memoryless? Use numa_mem_id() which gives you the next node
>>that has memory instead of numa_node_id() (gives you the current node
>>regardless if it has memory or not).
>
>diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
>index 545a170..a1c6040 100644
>--- a/mm/slub.c
>+++ b/mm/slub.c
>@@ -1700,6 +1700,9 @@ static void *get_partial(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t
>flags, int node,
> void *object;
> int searchnode = (node == NUMA_NO_NODE) ? numa_node_id() : node;
>
>+ if (!node_present_pages(searchnode))
>+ searchnode = numa_mem_id();
>+
> object = get_partial_node(s, get_node(s, searchnode), c, flags);
> if (object || node != NUMA_NO_NODE)
> return object;
>
The bug still can't be fixed w/ this patch.
Regards,
Wanpeng Li
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