free_pcppages_bulk() frees pages in a round-robin fashion. Originally, this was dealing only with migratetypes but storing high-order pages means that there can be many more empty lists that are uselessly checked. Track the minimum and maximum active pindex to reduce the search space. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 17 +++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 08de32cfd9bb..85cc1fe8bcc5 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1450,6 +1450,8 @@ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zone *zone, int count, struct per_cpu_pages *pcp) { int pindex = 0; + int min_pindex = 0; + int max_pindex = NR_PCP_LISTS - 1; int batch_free = 0; int nr_freed = 0; unsigned int order; @@ -1475,13 +1477,20 @@ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zone *zone, int count, */ do { batch_free++; - if (++pindex == NR_PCP_LISTS) - pindex = 0; + if (++pindex > max_pindex) + pindex = min_pindex; list = &pcp->lists[pindex]; - } while (list_empty(list)); + if (!list_empty(list)) + break; + + if (pindex == max_pindex) + max_pindex--; + if (pindex == min_pindex) + min_pindex++; + } while (1); /* This is the only non-empty list. Free them all. */ - if (batch_free == NR_PCP_LISTS) + if (batch_free >= max_pindex - min_pindex) batch_free = count; order = pindex_to_order(pindex); -- 2.31.1