[ovs-dev] [patch v2 2/3] mm, thp: really limit transparent hugepage allocation to local node

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 02/27/2015 11:17 PM, David Rientjes wrote:
> Commit 077fcf116c8c ("mm/thp: allocate transparent hugepages on local
> node") restructured alloc_hugepage_vma() with the intent of only
> allocating transparent hugepages locally when there was not an effective
> interleave mempolicy.
>
> alloc_pages_exact_node() does not limit the allocation to the single
> node, however, but rather prefers it.  This is because __GFP_THISNODE is
> not set which would cause the node-local nodemask to be passed.  Without
> it, only a nodemask that prefers the local node is passed.
>
> Fix this by passing __GFP_THISNODE and falling back to small pages when
> the allocation fails.
>
> Commit 9f1b868a13ac ("mm: thp: khugepaged: add policy for finding target
> node") suffers from a similar problem for khugepaged, which is also
> fixed.
>
> Fixes: 077fcf116c8c ("mm/thp: allocate transparent hugepages on local node")
> Fixes: 9f1b868a13ac ("mm: thp: khugepaged: add policy for finding target node")
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes at google.com>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka at suse.cz>