The patch titled
Subject: mm, page_alloc: reduce branches in zone_statistics
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-page_alloc-reduce-branches-in-zone_statistics.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-page_alloc-reduce-branches-in-zone_statistics.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-page_alloc-reduce-branches-in-zone_statistics.patch
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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm, page_alloc: reduce branches in zone_statistics
zone_statistics has more branches than it really needs to take an unlikely
GFP flag into account. Reduce the number and annotate the unlikely flag.
The performance difference on a page allocator microbenchmark is;
4.6.0-rc2 4.6.0-rc2
nocompound-v1r10 statbranch-v1r10
Min alloc-odr0-1 417.00 ( 0.00%) 419.00 ( -0.48%)
Min alloc-odr0-2 308.00 ( 0.00%) 305.00 ( 0.97%)
Min alloc-odr0-4 253.00 ( 0.00%) 250.00 ( 1.19%)
Min alloc-odr0-8 221.00 ( 0.00%) 219.00 ( 0.90%)
Min alloc-odr0-16 205.00 ( 0.00%) 203.00 ( 0.98%)
Min alloc-odr0-32 199.00 ( 0.00%) 195.00 ( 2.01%)
Min alloc-odr0-64 193.00 ( 0.00%) 191.00 ( 1.04%)
Min alloc-odr0-128 191.00 ( 0.00%) 189.00 ( 1.05%)
Min alloc-odr0-256 200.00 ( 0.00%) 198.00 ( 1.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-512 212.00 ( 0.00%) 210.00 ( 0.94%)
Min alloc-odr0-1024 219.00 ( 0.00%) 216.00 ( 1.37%)
Min alloc-odr0-2048 225.00 ( 0.00%) 221.00 ( 1.78%)
Min alloc-odr0-4096 231.00 ( 0.00%) 227.00 ( 1.73%)
Min alloc-odr0-8192 234.00 ( 0.00%) 232.00 ( 0.85%)
Min alloc-odr0-16384 234.00 ( 0.00%) 232.00 ( 0.85%)
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmstat.c | 16 ++++++++++------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/vmstat.c~mm-page_alloc-reduce-branches-in-zone_statistics mm/vmstat.c
--- a/mm/vmstat.c~mm-page_alloc-reduce-branches-in-zone_statistics
+++ a/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -581,17 +581,21 @@ void drain_zonestat(struct zone *zone, s
*/
void zone_statistics(struct zone *preferred_zone, struct zone *z, gfp_t flags)
{
- if (z->zone_pgdat == preferred_zone->zone_pgdat) {
+ int local_nid = numa_node_id();
+ enum zone_stat_item local_stat = NUMA_LOCAL;
+
+ if (unlikely(flags & __GFP_OTHER_NODE)) {
+ local_stat = NUMA_OTHER;
+ local_nid = preferred_zone->node;
+ }
+
+ if (z->node == local_nid) {
__inc_zone_state(z, NUMA_HIT);
+ __inc_zone_state(z, local_stat);
} else {
__inc_zone_state(z, NUMA_MISS);
__inc_zone_state(preferred_zone, NUMA_FOREIGN);
}
- if (z->node == ((flags & __GFP_OTHER_NODE) ?
- preferred_zone->node : numa_node_id()))
- __inc_zone_state(z, NUMA_LOCAL);
- else
- __inc_zone_state(z, NUMA_OTHER);
}
/*
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-page_alloc-only-check-pagecompound-for-high-order-pages.patch
mm-page_alloc-use-new-pageanonhead-helper-in-the-free-page-fast-path.patch
mm-page_alloc-reduce-branches-in-zone_statistics.patch
mm-page_alloc-inline-zone_statistics.patch
mm-page_alloc-inline-the-fast-path-of-the-zonelist-iterator.patch
mm-page_alloc-use-__dec_zone_state-for-order-0-page-allocation.patch
mm-page_alloc-avoid-unnecessary-zone-lookups-during-pageblock-operations.patch
mm-page_alloc-convert-alloc_flags-to-unsigned.patch
mm-page_alloc-convert-nr_fair_skipped-to-bool.patch
mm-page_alloc-remove-unnecessary-local-variable-in-get_page_from_freelist.patch
mm-page_alloc-remove-unnecessary-initialisation-in-get_page_from_freelist.patch
mm-page_alloc-remove-redundant-check-for-empty-zonelist.patch
mm-page_alloc-simplify-last-cpupid-reset.patch
mm-page_alloc-move-might_sleep_if-check-to-the-allocator-slowpath.patch
mm-page_alloc-move-__gfp_hardwall-modifications-out-of-the-fastpath.patch
mm-page_alloc-check-once-if-a-zone-has-isolated-pageblocks.patch
mm-page_alloc-shorten-the-page-allocator-fast-path.patch
mm-page_alloc-reduce-cost-of-fair-zone-allocation-policy-retry.patch
mm-page_alloc-shortcut-watermark-checks-for-order-0-pages.patch
mm-page_alloc-avoid-looking-up-the-first-zone-in-a-zonelist-twice.patch
mm-page_alloc-remove-field-from-alloc_context.patch
mm-page_alloc-check-multiple-page-fields-with-a-single-branch.patch
mm-page_alloc-remove-unnecessary-variable-from-free_pcppages_bulk.patch
mm-page_alloc-inline-pageblock-lookup-in-page-free-fast-paths.patch
mm-page_alloc-defer-debugging-checks-of-freed-pages-until-a-pcp-drain.patch
mm-page_alloc-defer-debugging-checks-of-pages-allocated-from-the-pcp.patch
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