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mm, page_alloc: remove unnecessary recalculations for dirty zone balancing 

File-backed pages that will be immediately written are balanced between
zones.  This heuristic tries to avoid having a single zone filled with
recently dirtied pages but the checks are unnecessarily expensive.  Move
consider_zone_balanced into the alloc_context instead of checking bitmaps
multiple times.  The patch also gives the parameter a more meaningful
name.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman 2015-11-06 16:28:12 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent e2b19197ff
commit c9ab0c4fbe
2 changed files with 8 additions and 4 deletions
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mm/internal.h
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@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ struct alloc_context {
int classzone_idx;
int migratetype;
enum zone_type high_zoneidx;
bool spread_dirty_pages;
};
/*

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mm/page_alloc.c
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@ -2478,8 +2478,6 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, int alloc_flags,
nodemask_t *allowednodes = NULL;/* zonelist_cache approximation */
int zlc_active = 0; /* set if using zonelist_cache */
int did_zlc_setup = 0; /* just call zlc_setup() one time */
bool consider_zone_dirty = (alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_LOW) &&
(gfp_mask & __GFP_WRITE);
int nr_fair_skipped = 0;
bool zonelist_rescan;
@ -2534,14 +2532,14 @@ zonelist_scan:
*
* XXX: For now, allow allocations to potentially
* exceed the per-zone dirty limit in the slowpath
* (ALLOC_WMARK_LOW unset) before going into reclaim,
* (spread_dirty_pages unset) before going into reclaim,
* which is important when on a NUMA setup the allowed
* zones are together not big enough to reach the
* global limit. The proper fix for these situations
* will require awareness of zones in the
* dirty-throttling and the flusher threads.
*/
if (consider_zone_dirty && !zone_dirty_ok(zone))
if (ac->spread_dirty_pages && !zone_dirty_ok(zone))
continue;
mark = zone->watermark[alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_MASK];
@ -3232,6 +3230,10 @@ retry_cpuset:
/* We set it here, as __alloc_pages_slowpath might have changed it */
ac.zonelist = zonelist;
/* Dirty zone balancing only done in the fast path */
ac.spread_dirty_pages = (gfp_mask & __GFP_WRITE);
/* The preferred zone is used for statistics later */
preferred_zoneref = first_zones_zonelist(ac.zonelist, ac.high_zoneidx,
ac.nodemask ? : &cpuset_current_mems_allowed,
@ -3250,6 +3252,7 @@ retry_cpuset:
* complete.
*/
alloc_mask = memalloc_noio_flags(gfp_mask);
ac.spread_dirty_pages = false;
page = __alloc_pages_slowpath(alloc_mask, order, &ac);
}