When we free a page whose order is very close to MAX_ORDER and greater than pageblock_order, it wastes some CPU cycles to increase max_order to MAX_ORDER one by one and check the pageblock migratetype of that page repeatedly especially when MAX_ORDER is much larger than pageblock_order. Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v2: - Rework the code suggested by Vlastimil. Thanks. mm/page_alloc.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index f91df593bf71..56e603eea1dd 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1002,7 +1002,7 @@ static inline void __free_one_page(struct page *page, struct page *buddy; bool to_tail; - max_order = min_t(unsigned int, MAX_ORDER, pageblock_order + 1); + max_order = min_t(unsigned int, MAX_ORDER - 1, pageblock_order); VM_BUG_ON(!zone_is_initialized(zone)); VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page->flags & PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP, page); @@ -1015,7 +1015,7 @@ static inline void __free_one_page(struct page *page, VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(bad_range(zone, page), page); continue_merging: - while (order < max_order - 1) { + while (order < max_order) { if (compaction_capture(capc, page, order, migratetype)) { __mod_zone_freepage_state(zone, -(1 << order), migratetype); @@ -1041,7 +1041,7 @@ static inline void __free_one_page(struct page *page, pfn = combined_pfn; order++; } - if (max_order < MAX_ORDER) { + if (order < MAX_ORDER - 1) { /* If we are here, it means order is >= pageblock_order. * We want to prevent merge between freepages on isolate * pageblock and normal pageblock. Without this, pageblock @@ -1062,7 +1062,7 @@ static inline void __free_one_page(struct page *page, is_migrate_isolate(buddy_mt))) goto done_merging; } - max_order++; + max_order = order + 1; goto continue_merging; } -- 2.11.0