linux/mm
Paul Jackson 28a42b9ea7 [PATCH] cpusets: confine pdflush to its cpuset
This patch keeps pdflush daemons on the same cpuset as their parent, the
kthread daemon.

Some large NUMA configurations put as much as they can of kernel threads
and other classic Unix load in what's called a bootcpuset, keeping the rest
of the system free for dedicated jobs.

This effort is thwarted by pdflush, which dynamically destroys and
recreates pdflush daemons depending on load.

It's easy enough to force the originally created pdflush deamons into the
bootcpuset, at system boottime.  But the pdflush threads created later were
allowed to run freely across the system, due to the necessary line in their
startup kthread():

        set_cpus_allowed(current, CPU_MASK_ALL);

By simply coding pdflush to start its threads with the cpus_allowed
restrictions of its cpuset (inherited from kthread, its parent) we can
ensure that dynamically created pdflush threads are also kept in the
bootcpuset.

On systems w/o cpusets, or w/o a bootcpuset implementation, the following
will have no affect, leaving pdflush to run on any CPU, as before.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:21 -08:00
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Kconfig [PATCH] memory hotplug: sysfs and add/remove functions 2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
Makefile [PATCH] memory hotplug: sysfs and add/remove functions 2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
bootmem.c [PATCH] core remove PageReserved 2005-10-29 21:40:39 -07:00
fadvise.c [PATCH] xip: madvice/fadvice: execute in place 2005-06-24 00:06:42 -07:00
filemap.c [PATCH] mm/filemap.c:filemap_populate(): move export. 2005-10-29 21:40:45 -07:00
filemap.h [PATCH] xip: reduce code duplication 2005-06-24 00:06:41 -07:00
filemap_xip.c [PATCH] mm: rmap with inner ptlock 2005-10-29 21:40:41 -07:00
fremap.c [PATCH] mm: ptd_alloc take ptlock 2005-10-29 21:40:40 -07:00
highmem.c [PATCH] gfp_t: the rest 2005-10-28 08:16:51 -07:00
hugetlb.c [PATCH] hugetlb: demand fault handler 2005-10-29 21:40:43 -07:00
internal.h Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
madvise.c [PATCH] core remove PageReserved 2005-10-29 21:40:39 -07:00
memory.c [PATCH] .text page fault SMP scalability optimization 2005-10-29 21:40:43 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c [PATCH] memory hotplug: call setup_per_zone_pages_min after hotplug 2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
mempolicy.c [PATCH] Remove policy contextualization from mbind 2005-10-29 21:40:45 -07:00
mempool.c [PATCH] gfp_t: mm/* (easy parts) 2005-10-28 08:16:47 -07:00
mincore.c [PATCH] freepgt: sys_mincore ignore FIRST_USER_PGD_NR 2005-04-19 13:29:20 -07:00
mlock.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
mmap.c [PATCH] mm: unmap_vmas with inner ptlock 2005-10-29 21:40:41 -07:00
mprotect.c [PATCH] mm: pte_offset_map_lock loops 2005-10-29 21:40:40 -07:00
mremap.c [PATCH] mm: split page table lock 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
msync.c [PATCH] mm: pte_offset_map_lock loops 2005-10-29 21:40:40 -07:00
nommu.c [PATCH] mm: follow_page with inner ptlock 2005-10-29 21:40:41 -07:00
oom_kill.c [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1 2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
page-writeback.c [PATCH] timer initialization cleanup: DEFINE_TIMER 2005-09-09 14:03:48 -07:00
page_alloc.c [PATCH] mm: wider use of for_each_*cpu() 2005-10-29 21:40:45 -07:00
page_io.c [PATCH] mm: split page table lock 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
pdflush.c [PATCH] cpusets: confine pdflush to its cpuset 2005-10-30 17:37:21 -08:00
prio_tree.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
readahead.c [PATCH] readahead: reset cache_hit earlier 2005-09-07 16:57:25 -07:00
rmap.c [PATCH] mm: update comments to pte lock 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
shmem.c [PATCH] mm: split page table lock 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
slab.c [PATCH] slab: add additional debugging to detect slabs from the wrong node 2005-10-29 21:40:36 -07:00
sparse.c [PATCH] memory hotplug: move section_mem_map alloc to sparse.c 2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
swap.c [PATCH] mm: split page table lock 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
swap_state.c [PATCH] mm: update comments to pte lock 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
swapfile.c [PATCH] mm: split page table lock 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
thrash.c [PATCH] swaptoken tuning 2005-10-29 21:40:35 -07:00
tiny-shmem.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
truncate.c [PATCH] ext3: Fix unmapped buffers in transaction's lists 2005-10-30 17:37:17 -08:00
vmalloc.c [PATCH] mm: init_mm without ptlock 2005-10-29 21:40:40 -07:00
vmscan.c [PATCH] mm: split page table lock 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00