On 05/23/2012 09:28 AM, Nathan Zimmer wrote:

When tmpfs has the memory policy interleaved it always starts allocating at each file at node 0.
When there are many small files the lower nodes fill up disproportionately.
My proposed solution is to start a file at a randomly chosen node.

Cc: Christoph Lameter<redacted>
Cc: Nick Piggin<npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins<hughd@google.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn<redacted>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan T Zimmer<redacted>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <redacted>

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