The patch titled Subject: mm, page_alloc: check once if a zone has isolated pageblocks has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-page_alloc-check-once-if-a-zone-has-isolated-pageblocks.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-page_alloc-check-once-if-a-zone-has-isolated-pageblocks.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-page_alloc-check-once-if-a-zone-has-isolated-pageblocks.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm, page_alloc: check once if a zone has isolated pageblocks When bulk freeing pages from the per-cpu lists the zone is checked for isolated pageblocks on every release. This patch checks it once per drain. Technically this is race-prone but so is the existing code. 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/page_alloc.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-check-once-if-a-zone-has-isolated-pageblocks mm/page_alloc.c --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-check-once-if-a-zone-has-isolated-pageblocks +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -831,6 +831,7 @@ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zo int batch_free = 0; int to_free = count; unsigned long nr_scanned; + bool isolated_pageblocks = has_isolate_pageblock(zone); spin_lock(&zone->lock); nr_scanned = zone_page_state(zone, NR_PAGES_SCANNED); @@ -870,7 +871,7 @@ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zo /* MIGRATE_ISOLATE page should not go to pcplists */ VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(is_migrate_isolate(mt), page); /* Pageblock could have been isolated meanwhile */ - if (unlikely(has_isolate_pageblock(zone))) + if (unlikely(isolated_pageblocks)) mt = get_pageblock_migratetype(page); __free_one_page(page, page_to_pfn(page), zone, 0, mt); _ 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 -- 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