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authorBen Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>2021-09-02 15:00:16 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-09-03 09:58:17 -0700
commita38a59fdfa10be55d08e4530923d950e739ac6a2 (patch)
tree006c2a2e194ec9d39d06ff687df1b1fe3742ac8d /mm/mempolicy.c
parentcfcaa66f803233c50e17239469f6c96136a673a1 (diff)
mm/mempolicy: advertise new MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY
Adds a new mode to the existing mempolicy modes, MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY. MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY will be adequately documented in the internal admin-guide with this patch. Eventually, the man pages for mbind(2), get_mempolicy(2), set_mempolicy(2) and numactl(8) will also have text about this mode. Those shall contain the canonical reference. NUMA systems continue to become more prevalent. New technologies like PMEM make finer grain control over memory access patterns increasingly desirable. MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY allows userspace to specify a set of nodes that will be tried first when performing allocations. If those allocations fail, all remaining nodes will be tried. It's a straight forward API which solves many of the presumptive needs of system administrators wanting to optimize workloads on such machines. The mode will work either per VMA, or per thread. [Michal Hocko: refine kernel doc for MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200630212517.308045-13-ben.widawsky@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1627970362-61305-5-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mempolicy.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/mempolicy.c7
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 64be3565ab7f..9e58854d7929 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1463,12 +1463,7 @@ static inline int sanitize_mpol_flags(int *mode, unsigned short *flags)
*flags = *mode & MPOL_MODE_FLAGS;
*mode &= ~MPOL_MODE_FLAGS;
- /*
- * The check should be 'mode >= MPOL_MAX', but as 'prefer_many'
- * is not fully implemented, don't permit it to be used for now,
- * and the logic will be restored in following patch
- */
- if ((unsigned int)(*mode) >= MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY)
+ if ((unsigned int)(*mode) >= MPOL_MAX)
return -EINVAL;
if ((*flags & MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES) && (*flags & MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES))
return -EINVAL;