Re: [PATCH 16/28] mm, page_alloc: Move __GFP_HARDWALL modifications out of the fastpath

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On 04/15/2016 11:07 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
__GFP_HARDWALL only has meaning in the context of cpusets but the fast path
always applies the flag on the first attempt. Move the manipulations into
the cpuset paths where they will be masked by a static branch in the common
case.

With the other micro-optimisations in this series combined, the impact on
a page allocator microbenchmark is

                                            4.6.0-rc2                  4.6.0-rc2
                                        decstat-v1r20                micro-v1r20
Min      alloc-odr0-1               381.00 (  0.00%)           377.00 (  1.05%)
Min      alloc-odr0-2               275.00 (  0.00%)           273.00 (  0.73%)
Min      alloc-odr0-4               229.00 (  0.00%)           226.00 (  1.31%)
Min      alloc-odr0-8               199.00 (  0.00%)           196.00 (  1.51%)
Min      alloc-odr0-16              186.00 (  0.00%)           183.00 (  1.61%)
Min      alloc-odr0-32              179.00 (  0.00%)           175.00 (  2.23%)
Min      alloc-odr0-64              174.00 (  0.00%)           172.00 (  1.15%)
Min      alloc-odr0-128             172.00 (  0.00%)           170.00 (  1.16%)
Min      alloc-odr0-256             181.00 (  0.00%)           183.00 ( -1.10%)
Min      alloc-odr0-512             193.00 (  0.00%)           191.00 (  1.04%)
Min      alloc-odr0-1024            201.00 (  0.00%)           199.00 (  1.00%)
Min      alloc-odr0-2048            206.00 (  0.00%)           204.00 (  0.97%)
Min      alloc-odr0-4096            212.00 (  0.00%)           210.00 (  0.94%)
Min      alloc-odr0-8192            215.00 (  0.00%)           213.00 (  0.93%)
Min      alloc-odr0-16384           216.00 (  0.00%)           214.00 (  0.93%)

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

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