Re: [PATCH] tmpfs not interleaving properly

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.

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--- a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/shmem_fs.h

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ struct shmem_inode_info {
 		char		*symlink;	/* unswappable short symlink */
 	};
 	struct shared_policy	policy;		/* NUMA memory alloc policy */
+	int			node_offset;	/* bias for interleaved nodes */
 	struct list_head	swaplist;	/* chain of maybes on swap */
 	struct list_head	xattr_list;	/* list of shmem_xattr */
 	struct inode		vfs_inode;

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index f99ff3e..58ef512 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c

@@ -819,7 +819,7 @@ static struct page *shmem_alloc_page(gfp_t gfp,
 
 	/* Create a pseudo vma that just contains the policy */
 	pvma.vm_start = 0;
-	pvma.vm_pgoff = index;
+	pvma.vm_pgoff = index + info->node_offset;
 	pvma.vm_ops = NULL;
 	pvma.vm_policy = mpol_shared_policy_lookup(&info->policy, index);
 

@@ -1153,6 +1153,7 @@ static struct inode *shmem_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, const struct inode
 			inode->i_fop = &shmem_file_operations;
 			mpol_shared_policy_init(&info->policy,
 						 shmem_get_sbmpol(sbinfo));
+			info->node_offset = node_random(&node_online_map);
 			break;
 		case S_IFDIR:
 			inc_nlink(inode);