The patch titled
Subject: mm: meminit: free pages in large chunks where possible
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-meminit-free-pages-in-large-chunks-where-possible.patch
This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged
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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: meminit: free pages in large chunks where possible
Parallel struct page frees pages one at a time. Try to free pages as
single large pages where possible.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Scott Norton <scott.norton@xxxxxx>
Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@xxxxxx>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~mm-meminit-free-pages-in-large-chunks-where-possible mm/page_alloc.c
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-meminit-free-pages-in-large-chunks-where-possible
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1056,6 +1056,20 @@ void __defer_init __free_pages_bootmem(s
}
#ifdef CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
+void __defermem_init deferred_free_range(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn,
+ int nr_pages)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ if (nr_pages == MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES && (pfn & (MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES-1)) == 0) {
+ __free_pages_boot_core(page, pfn, MAX_ORDER-1);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++, page++, pfn++)
+ __free_pages_boot_core(page, pfn, 0);
+}
+
/* Initialise remaining memory on a node */
void __defermem_init deferred_init_memmap(int nid)
{
@@ -1081,6 +1095,9 @@ void __defermem_init deferred_init_memma
for_each_mem_pfn_range(i, nid, &walk_start, &walk_end, NULL) {
unsigned long pfn, end_pfn;
struct page *page = NULL;
+ struct page *free_base_page = NULL;
+ unsigned long free_base_pfn = 0;
+ int nr_to_free = 0;
end_pfn = min(walk_end, zone_end_pfn(zone));
pfn = first_init_pfn;
@@ -1091,7 +1108,7 @@ void __defermem_init deferred_init_memma
for (; pfn < end_pfn; pfn++) {
if (!pfn_valid_within(pfn))
- continue;
+ goto free_range;
/*
* Ensure pfn_valid is checked every
@@ -1100,30 +1117,49 @@ void __defermem_init deferred_init_memma
if ((pfn & (MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES - 1)) == 0) {
if (!pfn_valid(pfn)) {
page = NULL;
- continue;
+ goto free_range;
}
}
if (!meminit_pfn_in_nid(pfn, nid, &nid_init_state)) {
page = NULL;
- continue;
+ goto free_range;
}
/* Minimise pfn page lookups and scheduler checks */
if (page && (pfn & (MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES - 1)) != 0) {
page++;
} else {
+ deferred_free_range(free_base_page,
+ free_base_pfn, nr_to_free);
+ free_base_page = NULL;
+ free_base_pfn = nr_to_free = 0;
+
page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
cond_resched();
}
if (page->flags) {
VM_BUG_ON(page_zone(page) != zone);
- continue;
+ goto free_range;
}
__init_single_page(page, pfn, zid, nid);
- __free_pages_boot_core(page, pfn, 0);
+ if (!free_base_page) {
+ free_base_page = page;
+ free_base_pfn = pfn;
+ nr_to_free = 0;
+ }
+ nr_to_free++;
+
+ /* Where possible, batch up pages for a single free */
+ continue;
+free_range:
+ /* Free the current block of pages to allocator */
+ if (free_base_page)
+ deferred_free_range(free_base_page, free_base_pfn, nr_to_free);
+ free_base_page = NULL;
+ free_base_pfn = nr_to_free = 0;
}
first_init_pfn = max(end_pfn, first_init_pfn);
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mgorman@xxxxxxx are
jbd2-revert-must-not-fail-allocation-loops-back-to-gfp_nofail.patch
thp-cleanup-how-khugepaged-enters-freezer.patch
mm-new-mm-hook-framework.patch
mm-new-arch_remap-hook.patch
powerpc-mm-tracking-vdso-remap.patch
mm-meminit-reduce-number-of-times-pageblocks-are-set-during-struct-page-init.patch
mm-meminit-remove-mminit_verify_page_links.patch
page-flags-trivial-cleanup-for-pagetrans-helpers.patch
page-flags-introduce-page-flags-policies-wrt-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_locked-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-of-fs-io-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-of-lru-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-slb-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-of-xen-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_reserved-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_swapbacked-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_swapcache-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_mlocked-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_uncached-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_uptodate-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-look-on-head-page-if-the-flag-is-encoded-in-page-mapping.patch
mm-sanitize-page-mapping-for-tail-pages.patch
mm-vmscan-do-not-throttle-based-on-pfmemalloc-reserves-if-node-has-no-reclaimable-pages.patch
mm-vmscan-fix-the-page-state-calculation-in-too_many_isolated.patch
mm-move-lazy-free-pages-to-inactive-list.patch
mm-move-lazy-free-pages-to-inactive-list-fix.patch
mm-move-lazy-free-pages-to-inactive-list-fix-fix.patch
do_shared_fault-check-that-mmap_sem-is-held.patch
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