From ff65338e78418e5970a7aabbabb94c46f2bb821d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Namhyung Kim Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 20:54:13 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] perf core: Allocate perf_event in the target node memory For cpu events, it'd better allocating them in the corresponding node memory as they would be mostly accessed by the target cpu. Although perf tools sets the cpu affinity before calling perf_event_open, there are places it doesn't (notably perf record) and we should consider other external users too. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210311115413.444407-2-namhyung@kernel.org --- kernel/events/core.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index f526ddb50d5e0..6182cb199f724 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -11288,13 +11288,16 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu, struct perf_event *event; struct hw_perf_event *hwc; long err = -EINVAL; + int node; if ((unsigned)cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) { if (!task || cpu != -1) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); } - event = kmem_cache_zalloc(perf_event_cache, GFP_KERNEL); + node = (cpu >= 0) ? cpu_to_node(cpu) : -1; + event = kmem_cache_alloc_node(perf_event_cache, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, + node); if (!event) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); -- 2.30.2