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Eric Dumazet reported a strange numa spreading info in [1], and found commit121e6f3258("mm/vmalloc: hugepage vmalloc mappings") introduced this issue [2]. Dig into the difference before and after this patch, page allocation has some difference: before: alloc_large_system_hash __vmalloc __vmalloc_node(..., NUMA_NO_NODE, ...) __vmalloc_node_range __vmalloc_area_node alloc_page /* because NUMA_NO_NODE, so choose alloc_page branch */ alloc_pages_current alloc_page_interleave /* can be proved by print policy mode */ after: alloc_large_system_hash __vmalloc __vmalloc_node(..., NUMA_NO_NODE, ...) __vmalloc_node_range __vmalloc_area_node alloc_pages_node /* choose nid by nuam_mem_id() */ __alloc_pages_node(nid, ....) So after commit121e6f3258("mm/vmalloc: hugepage vmalloc mappings"), it will allocate memory in current node instead of interleaving allocate memory. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CANn89iL6AAyWhfxdHO+jaT075iOa3XcYn9k6JJc7JR2XYn6k_Q@mail.gmail.com/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CANn89iLofTR=AK-QOZY87RdUZENCZUT4O6a0hvhu3_EwRMerOg@mail.gmail.com/ [2] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211021080744.874701-2-chenwandun@huawei.com Fixes:121e6f3258("mm/vmalloc: hugepage vmalloc mappings") Signed-off-by: Chen Wandun <chenwandun@huawei.com> Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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