From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm, page_alloc: shorten the page allocator fast path The page allocator fast path checks page multiple times unnecessarily. This patch avoids all the slowpath checks if the first allocation attempt succeeds. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-shorten-the-page-allocator-fast-path mm/page_alloc.c --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-shorten-the-page-allocator-fast-path +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -3398,31 +3398,26 @@ retry_cpuset: ac.nodemask, &ac.preferred_zone); if (!ac.preferred_zone) { page = NULL; - goto out; + goto no_zone; } ac.classzone_idx = zonelist_zone_idx(preferred_zoneref); /* First allocation attempt */ page = get_page_from_freelist(alloc_mask, order, alloc_flags, &ac); - if (unlikely(!page)) { - /* - * Runtime PM, block IO and its error handling path - * can deadlock because I/O on the device might not - * complete. - */ - alloc_mask = memalloc_noio_flags(gfp_mask); - ac.spread_dirty_pages = false; - - page = __alloc_pages_slowpath(alloc_mask, order, &ac); - } + if (likely(page)) + goto out; - if (kmemcheck_enabled && page) - kmemcheck_pagealloc_alloc(page, order, gfp_mask); + /* + * Runtime PM, block IO and its error handling path can deadlock + * because I/O on the device might not complete. + */ + alloc_mask = memalloc_noio_flags(gfp_mask); + ac.spread_dirty_pages = false; - trace_mm_page_alloc(page, order, alloc_mask, ac.migratetype); + page = __alloc_pages_slowpath(alloc_mask, order, &ac); -out: +no_zone: /* * When updating a task's mems_allowed, it is possible to race with * parallel threads in such a way that an allocation can fail while @@ -3434,6 +3429,12 @@ out: goto retry_cpuset; } +out: + if (kmemcheck_enabled && page) + kmemcheck_pagealloc_alloc(page, order, gfp_mask); + + trace_mm_page_alloc(page, order, alloc_mask, ac.migratetype); + return page; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__alloc_pages_nodemask); _ -- 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