commit e2cb96b7ecba46888cf00252ffdb8ef1e92c4258
author Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Tue Aug 19 08:51:22 2008 -0500
committer Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Wed Aug 20 21:50:21 2008 +0300
tree 98bb362ab0fc0eab37b206a3b8330354406bb357
parent 30a2f3c60a84092c8084dfe788b710f8d0768cd4

slub: Disable NUMA remote node defragmentation by default

Switch remote node defragmentation off by default. The current settings can
cause excessive node local allocations with hackbench:

  SLAB:

    % cat /proc/meminfo
    MemTotal:        7701760 kB
    MemFree:         5940096 kB
    Slab:             123840 kB

  SLUB:

    % cat /proc/meminfo
    MemTotal:        7701376 kB
    MemFree:         4740928 kB
    Slab:            1591680 kB

[Note: this feature is not related to slab defragmentation.]

You can find the original discussion here:

  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/4/308

Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

mm/slub.c

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 4f5b961..fb486d5 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2312,7 +2312,7 @@
 
 	s->refcount = 1;
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
-	s->remote_node_defrag_ratio = 100;
+	s->remote_node_defrag_ratio = 1000;
 #endif
 	if (!init_kmem_cache_nodes(s, gfpflags & ~SLUB_DMA))
 		goto error;
@@ -4058,7 +4058,7 @@
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
-	if (ratio < 100)
+	if (ratio <= 100)
 		s->remote_node_defrag_ratio = ratio * 10;
 
 	return length;