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mm, page_alloc: avoid looking up the first zone in a zonelist twice

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The allocator fast path looks up the first usable zone in a zonelist and
then get_page_from_freelist does the same job in the zonelist iterator.
This patch preserves the necessary information.

                                             4.6.0-rc2                  4.6.0-rc2
                                        fastmark-v1r20             initonce-v1r20
  Min      alloc-odr0-1               364.00 (  0.00%)           359.00 (  1.37%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-2               262.00 (  0.00%)           260.00 (  0.76%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-4               214.00 (  0.00%)           214.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-8               186.00 (  0.00%)           186.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-16              173.00 (  0.00%)           173.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-32              165.00 (  0.00%)           165.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-64              161.00 (  0.00%)           162.00 ( -0.62%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-128             159.00 (  0.00%)           161.00 ( -1.26%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-256             168.00 (  0.00%)           170.00 ( -1.19%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-512             180.00 (  0.00%)           181.00 ( -0.56%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-1024            190.00 (  0.00%)           190.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-2048            196.00 (  0.00%)           196.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-4096            202.00 (  0.00%)           202.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-8192            206.00 (  0.00%)           205.00 (  0.49%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-16384           206.00 (  0.00%)           205.00 (  0.49%)

The benefit is negligible and the results are within the noise but each
cycle counts.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Mel Gorman
2016-05-19 17:14:10 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 48ee5f3696
commit c33d6c06f6
5 changed files with 43 additions and 40 deletions
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fs/buffer.c
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@@ -255,17 +255,17 @@ out:
*/
static void free_more_memory(void)
{
struct zone *zone;
struct zoneref *z;
int nid;
wakeup_flusher_threads(1024, WB_REASON_FREE_MORE_MEM);
yield();
for_each_online_node(nid) {
(void)first_zones_zonelist(node_zonelist(nid, GFP_NOFS),
gfp_zone(GFP_NOFS), NULL,
&zone);
if (zone)
z = first_zones_zonelist(node_zonelist(nid, GFP_NOFS),
gfp_zone(GFP_NOFS), NULL);
if (z->zone)
try_to_free_pages(node_zonelist(nid, GFP_NOFS), 0,
GFP_NOFS, NULL);
}