On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 03:50:36PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK is set in a few cases. Always by kswapd, always for > __GFP_MEMALLOC, sometimes for swap-over-nfs, tasks etc. Each of these cases > are relatively rare events but the ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK check is an unlikely > branch in the fast path. This patch moves the check out of the fast path > and after it has been determined that the watermarks have not been met. This > helps the common fast path at the cost of making the slow path slower and > hitting kswapd with a performance cost. It's a reasonable tradeoff. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
