The patch titled Subject: z3fold: discourage use of pages that weren't compacted has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was z3fold-discourage-use-of-pages-that-werent-compacted.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged ------------------------------------------------------ From: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: z3fold: discourage use of pages that weren't compacted If a z3fold page couldn't be compacted, we don't want it to be used for next object allocation in the first place. It makes more sense to add it to the end of the relevant unbuddied list. If that page gets compacted later, it will be added to the beginning of the list then. This simple idea gives 5-7% improvement in randrw fio tests and about 10% improvement in fio sequential read/write. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161115170038.75e127739b66f850e50d7fc1@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/z3fold.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/z3fold.c~z3fold-discourage-use-of-pages-that-werent-compacted mm/z3fold.c --- a/mm/z3fold.c~z3fold-discourage-use-of-pages-that-werent-compacted +++ a/mm/z3fold.c @@ -539,11 +539,19 @@ static void z3fold_free(struct z3fold_po free_z3fold_page(zhdr); atomic64_dec(&pool->pages_nr); } else { - z3fold_compact_page(zhdr); + int compacted = z3fold_compact_page(zhdr); /* Add to the unbuddied list */ spin_lock(&pool->lock); freechunks = num_free_chunks(zhdr); - list_add(&zhdr->buddy, &pool->unbuddied[freechunks]); + /* + * If the page has been compacted, we want to use it + * in the first place. + */ + if (compacted) + list_add(&zhdr->buddy, &pool->unbuddied[freechunks]); + else + list_add_tail(&zhdr->buddy, + &pool->unbuddied[freechunks]); spin_unlock(&pool->lock); z3fold_page_unlock(zhdr); } @@ -672,12 +680,16 @@ next: spin_lock(&pool->lock); list_add(&zhdr->buddy, &pool->buddied); } else { - z3fold_compact_page(zhdr); + int compacted = z3fold_compact_page(zhdr); /* add to unbuddied list */ spin_lock(&pool->lock); freechunks = num_free_chunks(zhdr); - list_add(&zhdr->buddy, - &pool->unbuddied[freechunks]); + if (compacted) + list_add(&zhdr->buddy, + &pool->unbuddied[freechunks]); + else + list_add_tail(&zhdr->buddy, + &pool->unbuddied[freechunks]); } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from vitalywool@xxxxxxxxx are z3fold-fix-header-size-related-issues.patch z3fold-fix-locking-issues.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