From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
To: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bounds: Support non-power-of-two CONFIG_NR_CPUS
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 16:31:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231010153122.iqdv5ezmrjowug53@techsingularity.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231010145549.1244748-1-willy@infradead.org>
On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 03:55:49PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> ilog2() rounds down, so for example when PowerPC 85xx sets CONFIG_NR_CPUS
> to 24, we will only allocate 4 bits to store the number of CPUs instead
> of 5. Use bits_per() instead, which rounds up. Found by code inspection.
> The effect of this would probably be a misaccounting when doing NUMA
> balancing, so to a user, it would only be a performance penalty.
> The effects may be more wide-spread; it's hard to tell.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
> Fixes: 90572890d202 ("mm: numa: Change page last {nid,pid} into {cpu,pid}")
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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