Subject: [merged] mm-page_alloc-exclude-unreclaimable-allocations-from-zone-fairness-policy.patch removed from -mm tree To: hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx,dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx,mgorman@xxxxxxx,riel@xxxxxxxxxx,stable@xxxxxxxxxx,mm-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:53:51 -0800 The patch titled Subject: mm: page_alloc: exclude unreclaimable allocations from zone fairness policy has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-page_alloc-exclude-unreclaimable-allocations-from-zone-fairness-policy.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: page_alloc: exclude unreclaimable allocations from zone fairness policy Dave Hansen noted a regression in a microbenchmark that loops around open() and close() on an 8-node NUMA machine and bisected it down to 81c0a2bb515f ("mm: page_alloc: fair zone allocator policy"). That change forces the slab allocations of the file descriptor to spread out to all 8 nodes, causing remote references in the page allocator and slab. The round-robin policy is only there to provide fairness among memory allocations that are reclaimed involuntarily based on pressure in each zone. It does not make sense to apply it to unreclaimable kernel allocations that are freed manually, in this case instantly after the allocation, and incur the remote reference costs twice for no reason. Only round-robin allocations that are usually freed through page reclaim or slab shrinking. Bisected by Dave Hansen. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-exclude-unreclaimable-allocations-from-zone-fairness-policy mm/page_alloc.c --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-exclude-unreclaimable-allocations-from-zone-fairness-policy +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1920,7 +1920,8 @@ zonelist_scan: * back to remote zones that do not partake in the * fairness round-robin cycle of this zonelist. */ - if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_LOW) { + if ((alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_LOW) && + (gfp_mask & GFP_MOVABLE_MASK)) { if (zone_page_state(zone, NR_ALLOC_BATCH) <= 0) continue; if (zone_reclaim_mode && _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch memcg-fix-memcg_size-calculation.patch mm-memcg-avoid-oom-notification-when-current-needs-access-to-memory-reserves.patch proc-meminfo-provide-estimated-available-memory.patch mm-mempolicy-remove-unneeded-functions-for-uma-configs.patch mm-memblock-debug-correct-displaying-of-upper-memory-boundary.patch x86-get-pg_data_ts-memory-from-other-node.patch memblock-numa-introduce-flags-field-into-memblock.patch memblock-mem_hotplug-introduce-memblock_hotplug-flag-to-mark-hotpluggable-regions.patch memblock-make-memblock_set_node-support-different-memblock_type.patch acpi-numa-mem_hotplug-mark-hotpluggable-memory-in-memblock.patch acpi-numa-mem_hotplug-mark-all-nodes-the-kernel-resides-un-hotpluggable.patch memblock-mem_hotplug-make-memblock-skip-hotpluggable-regions-if-needed.patch x86-numa-acpi-memory-hotplug-make-movable_node-have-higher-priority.patch memcg-fix-kmem_account_flags-check-in-memcg_can_account_kmem.patch memcg-make-memcg_update_cache_sizes-static.patch memcg-oom-lock-mem_cgroup_print_oom_info.patch memcg-do-not-use-vmalloc-for-mem_cgroup-allocations.patch mm-remove-bug_on-from-mlock_vma_page.patch swap-add-a-simple-detector-for-inappropriate-swapin-readahead-fix.patch linux-next.patch debugging-keep-track-of-page-owners.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html