From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> File-backed pages that will be immediately dirtied are balanced between zones but it's unnecessarily expensive. Move consider_zone_balanced into the alloc_context instead of checking bitmaps multiple times. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> --- mm/internal.h | 1 + mm/page_alloc.c | 9 ++++++--- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h index 36b23f1e2ca6..8977348fbeec 100644 --- a/mm/internal.h +++ b/mm/internal.h @@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ struct alloc_context { int classzone_idx; int migratetype; enum zone_type high_zoneidx; + bool consider_zone_dirty; }; /* diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 4b35b196aeda..7c2dc022f4ba 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -2295,8 +2295,6 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, int alloc_flags, struct zoneref *z; struct page *page = NULL; struct zone *zone; - bool consider_zone_dirty = (alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_LOW) && - (gfp_mask & __GFP_WRITE); int nr_fair_skipped = 0; bool zonelist_rescan; @@ -2355,7 +2353,7 @@ zonelist_scan: * will require awareness of zones in the * dirty-throttling and the flusher threads. */ - if (consider_zone_dirty && !zone_dirty_ok(zone)) + if (ac->consider_zone_dirty && !zone_dirty_ok(zone)) continue; mark = zone->watermark[alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_MASK]; @@ -2995,6 +2993,10 @@ retry_cpuset: /* We set it here, as __alloc_pages_slowpath might have changed it */ ac.zonelist = zonelist; + + /* Dirty zone balancing only done in the fast path */ + ac.consider_zone_dirty = (gfp_mask & __GFP_WRITE); + /* The preferred zone is used for statistics later */ preferred_zoneref = first_zones_zonelist(ac.zonelist, ac.high_zoneidx, ac.nodemask, &ac.preferred_zone); @@ -3012,6 +3014,7 @@ retry_cpuset: * complete. */ alloc_mask = memalloc_noio_flags(gfp_mask); + ac.consider_zone_dirty = false; page = __alloc_pages_slowpath(alloc_mask, order, &ac); } -- 2.4.3 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>