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In build_zonelists(), when the fallback list is built for the nodes, the
node load gets reinitialized during each iteration. This results in
nodes with same distances occupying the same slot in different node
fallback lists rather than appearing in the intended round- robin
manner. This results in one node getting picked for allocation more
compared to other nodes with the same distance.
As an example, consider a 4 node system with the following distance
matrix.
Node 0 1 2 3
----------------
0 10 12 32 32
1 12 10 32 32
2 32 32 10 12
3 32 32 12 10
For this case, the node fallback list gets built like this:
Node Fallback list
---------------------
0 0 1 2 3
1 1 0 3 2
2 2 3 0 1
3 3 2 0 1 <-- Unexpected fallback order
In the fallback list for nodes 2 and 3, the nodes 0 and 1 appear in the
same order which results in more allocations getting satisfied from node
0 compared to node 1.
The effect of this on remote memory bandwidth as seen by stream
benchmark is shown below:
Case 1: Bandwidth from cores on nodes 2 & 3 to memory on nodes 0 & 1
(numactl -m 0,1 ./stream_lowOverhead ... --cores <from 2, 3>)
Case 2: Bandwidth from cores on nodes 0 & 1 to memory on nodes 2 & 3
(numactl -m 2,3 ./stream_lowOverhead ... --cores <from 0, 1>)
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BANDWIDTH (MB/s)
TEST Case 1 Case 2
----------------------------------------
COPY 57479.6 110791.8
SCALE 55372.9 105685.9
ADD 50460.6 96734.2
TRIADD 50397.6 97119.1
----------------------------------------
The bandwidth drop in Case 1 occurs because most of the allocations get
satisfied by node 0 as it appears first in the fallback order for both
nodes 2 and 3.
This can be fixed by accumulating the node load in build_zonelists()
rather than reinitializing it during each iteration. With this the
nodes with the same distance rightly get assigned in the round robin
manner.
In fact this was how it was originally until commit
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Linux kernel
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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