mm: enable hashdist by default on 64bit NUMA

On PowerPC we allocate large boot time hashes on node 0.  This leads to an
imbalance in the free memory, for example on a 64GB box (4 x 16GB nodes):

Free memory:
Node 0: 97.03%
Node 1: 98.54%
Node 2: 98.42%
Node 3: 98.53%

If we switch to using vmalloc (like ia64 and x86-64) things are more
balanced:

Free memory:
Node 0: 97.53%
Node 1: 98.35%
Node 2: 98.33%
Node 3: 98.33%

For many HPC applications we are limited by the free available memory on
the smallest node, so even though the same amount of memory is used the
better balancing helps.

Since all 64bit NUMA capable architectures should have sufficient vmalloc
space, it makes sense to enable it via CONFIG_64BIT.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/bootmem.h b/include/linux/bootmem.h
index 455d83219fae5f3e40bdf83575da34ea9c864da7..bc3ab70736955675afef688d4209c5bf8392b4b3 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/bootmem.h
+++ b/include/linux/bootmem.h
@@ -146,10 +146,10 @@ extern void *alloc_large_system_hash(const char *tablename,
 
 #define HASH_EARLY     0x00000001      /* Allocating during early boot? */
 
-/* Only NUMA needs hash distribution.
- * IA64 and x86_64 have sufficient vmalloc space.
+/* Only NUMA needs hash distribution. 64bit NUMA architectures have
+ * sufficient vmalloc space.
  */
-#if defined(CONFIG_NUMA) && (defined(CONFIG_IA64) || defined(CONFIG_X86_64))
+#if defined(CONFIG_NUMA) && defined(CONFIG_64BIT)
 #define HASHDIST_DEFAULT 1
 #else
 #define HASHDIST_DEFAULT 0