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    slub numa: Fix rare allocation from unexpected node · bc6488e9
    Christoph Lameter 提交于
    The network developers have seen sporadic allocations resulting in objects
    coming from unexpected NUMA nodes despite asking for objects from a
    specific node.
    
    This is due to get_partial() calling get_any_partial() if partial
    slabs are exhausted for a node even if a node was specified and therefore
    one would expect allocations only from the specified node.
    
    get_any_partial() sporadically may return a slab from a foreign
    node to gradually reduce the size of partial lists on remote nodes
    and thereby reduce total memory use for a slab cache.
    
    The behavior is controlled by the remote_defrag_ratio of each cache.
    
    Strictly speaking this is permitted behavior since __GFP_THISNODE was
    not specified for the allocation but it is certain surprising.
    
    This patch makes sure that the remote defrag behavior only occurs
    if no node was specified.
    Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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