In current implementation, there are two places to isolate a range of
page: __offline_pages() and alloc_contig_range(). During this procedure,
it will drain pages on pcp list.
Below is a brief call flow:
__offline_pages()/alloc_contig_range()
start_isolate_page_range()
set_migratetype_isolate()
drain_all_pages()
drain_all_pages() <--- A
>From this snippet we can see current logic is isolate and drain pcp list
for each pageblock and drain pcp list again for the whole range.
start_isolate_page_range is responsible for isolating the given pfn
range. One part of that job is to make sure that also pages that are on
the allocator pcp lists are properly isolated. Otherwise they could be
reused and the range wouldn't be completely isolated until the memory is
freed back. While there is no strict guarantee here because pages might
get allocated at any time before drain_all_pages is called there doesn't
seem to be any strong demand for such a guarantee.
In any case, draining is already done at the isolation level and there
is no need to do it again later by start_isolate_page_range callers
(memory hotplug and CMA allocator currently). Therefore remove pointless
draining in existing callers to make the code more clear and
functionally correct.
[mhocko@xxxxxxxx: provide a clearer changelog for the last two paragraph]
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
---
v4:
* adjust last two paragraph changelog from Michal's comment
v3:
* it is not proper to rely on caller to drain pages, so keep to drain
pages during iteration and remove the one in callers.
v2: adjust changelog with MIGRATE_ISOLATE effects for the isolated range
---
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 1 -
mm/page_alloc.c | 1 -
2 files changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 6910e0eea074..d2fa6cbbb2db 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -1599,7 +1599,6 @@ static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
cond_resched();
lru_add_drain_all();
- drain_all_pages(zone);
pfn = scan_movable_pages(start_pfn, end_pfn);
if (pfn) { /* We have movable pages */
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index f1edd36a1e2b..d9ee4bb3a1a7 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -8041,7 +8041,6 @@ int alloc_contig_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
*/
lru_add_drain_all();
- drain_all_pages(cc.zone);
order = 0;
outer_start = start;
--
2.15.1
