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authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>2013-10-07 11:29:23 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-10-09 14:47:51 +0200
commit7851a45cd3f6198bf542c30e27b330e8eeb3736c (patch)
tree6e81020606c34c95aeded72620738e3a22032e13 /mm/migrate.c
parente29cf08b05dc0b8151d65704d96d525a9e179a6b (diff)
downloadlinux-7851a45cd3f6198bf542c30e27b330e8eeb3736c.tar.gz
mm: numa: Copy cpupid on page migration
After page migration, the new page has the nidpid unset. This makes
every fault on a recently migrated page look like a first numa fault,
leading to another page migration.

Copying over the nidpid at page migration time should prevent erroneous
migrations of recently migrated pages.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-46-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/migrate.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/migrate.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index ff537749d3b4..44c1fa9d6f54 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -443,6 +443,8 @@ int migrate_huge_page_move_mapping(struct address_space *mapping,
  */
 void migrate_page_copy(struct page *newpage, struct page *page)
 {
+	int cpupid;
+
 	if (PageHuge(page) || PageTransHuge(page))
 		copy_huge_page(newpage, page);
 	else
@@ -479,6 +481,13 @@ void migrate_page_copy(struct page *newpage, struct page *page)
 			__set_page_dirty_nobuffers(newpage);
  	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Copy NUMA information to the new page, to prevent over-eager
+	 * future migrations of this same page.
+	 */
+	cpupid = page_cpupid_xchg_last(page, -1);
+	page_cpupid_xchg_last(newpage, cpupid);
+
 	mlock_migrate_page(newpage, page);
 	ksm_migrate_page(newpage, page);
 	/*