[PATCH] mm: kevent threads: use MPOL_DEFAULT
Switch the memory policy of the kevent threads to MPOL_DEFAULT while
leaving the kzalloc of the workqueue structure on interleave. This means
that all code executed in the context of the kevent thread is allocating
node local.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Alok Kataria <alok.kataria@calsoftinc.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index cfc737b..3df9bfc 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
#include <linux/notifier.h>
#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <linux/hardirq.h>
+#include <linux/mempolicy.h>
/*
* The per-CPU workqueue (if single thread, we always use the first
@@ -245,6 +246,12 @@
sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &blocked, NULL);
flush_signals(current);
+ /*
+ * We inherited MPOL_INTERLEAVE from the booting kernel.
+ * Set MPOL_DEFAULT to insure node local allocations.
+ */
+ numa_default_policy();
+
/* SIG_IGN makes children autoreap: see do_notify_parent(). */
sa.sa.sa_handler = SIG_IGN;
sa.sa.sa_flags = 0;