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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH V5] mm readahead: Fix readahead fail for no local memory and limit readahead pages
On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, David Rientjes wrote:

> > > > > +#define MAX_REMOTE_READAHEAD 4096UL

> Normally it wouldn't matter because there's no significant downside to it
> racing, things like mempolicies which use numa_node_id() extensively would
> result in, oops, a page allocation on the wrong node.
>
> This stands out to me, though, because you're expecting the calculation to
> be correct for a specific node.
>
> The patch is still wrong, though, it should just do
>
> int node = ACCESS_ONCE(numa_mem_id());
> return min(nr, (node_page_state(node, NR_INACTIVE_FILE) +
> node_page_state(node, NR_FREE_PAGES)) / 2);
>
> since we want to readahead based on the cpu's local node, the comment
> saying we're reading ahead onto "remote memory" is wrong since a
> memoryless node has local affinity to numa_mem_id().
>

Oops, forgot about the MAX_REMOTE_READAHEAD which needs to be factored in
as well, but this handles the bound on local node's statistics.


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