The patch titled page allocator: replace __alloc_pages_internal() with __alloc_pages_nodemask() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is page-allocator-replace-__alloc_pages_internal-with-__alloc_pages_nodemask.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 *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: page allocator: replace __alloc_pages_internal() with __alloc_pages_nodemask() From: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> The start of a large patch series to clean up and optimise the page allocator. The performance improvements are in a wide range depending on the exact machine but the results I've seen so fair are approximately; kernbench: 0 to 0.12% (elapsed time) 0.49% to 3.20% (sys time) aim9: -4% to 30% (for page_test and brk_test) tbench: -1% to 4% hackbench: -2.5% to 3.45% (mostly within the noise though) netperf-udp -1.34% to 4.06% (varies between machines a bit) netperf-tcp -0.44% to 5.22% (varies between machines a bit) I haven't sysbench figures at hand, but previously they were within the -0.5% to 2% range. On netperf, the client and server were bound to opposite number CPUs to maximise the problems with cache line bouncing of the struct pages so I expect different people to report different results for netperf depending on their exact machine and how they ran the test (different machines, same cpus client/server, shared cache but two threads client/server, different socket client/server etc). I also measured the vmlinux sizes for a single x86-based config with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO enabled but not CONFIG_DEBUG_VM. The core of the .config is based on the Debian Lenny kernel config so I expect it to be reasonably typical. This patch: __alloc_pages_internal is the core page allocator function but essentially it is an alias of __alloc_pages_nodemask. Naming a publicly available and exported function "internal" is also a big ugly. This patch renames __alloc_pages_internal() to __alloc_pages_nodemask() and deletes the old nodemask function. Warning - This patch renames an exported symbol. No kernel driver is affected by external drivers calling __alloc_pages_internal() should change the call to __alloc_pages_nodemask() without any alteration of parameters. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/gfp.h | 12 ++---------- mm/page_alloc.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/gfp.h~page-allocator-replace-__alloc_pages_internal-with-__alloc_pages_nodemask include/linux/gfp.h --- a/include/linux/gfp.h~page-allocator-replace-__alloc_pages_internal-with-__alloc_pages_nodemask +++ a/include/linux/gfp.h @@ -169,24 +169,16 @@ static inline void arch_alloc_page(struc #endif struct page * -__alloc_pages_internal(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, +__alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, struct zonelist *zonelist, nodemask_t *nodemask); static inline struct page * __alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, struct zonelist *zonelist) { - return __alloc_pages_internal(gfp_mask, order, zonelist, NULL); + return __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_mask, order, zonelist, NULL); } -static inline struct page * -__alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, - struct zonelist *zonelist, nodemask_t *nodemask) -{ - return __alloc_pages_internal(gfp_mask, order, zonelist, nodemask); -} - - static inline struct page *alloc_pages_node(int nid, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order) { diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~page-allocator-replace-__alloc_pages_internal-with-__alloc_pages_nodemask mm/page_alloc.c --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~page-allocator-replace-__alloc_pages_internal-with-__alloc_pages_nodemask +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1462,7 +1462,7 @@ try_next_zone: * This is the 'heart' of the zoned buddy allocator. */ struct page * -__alloc_pages_internal(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, +__alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, struct zonelist *zonelist, nodemask_t *nodemask) { const gfp_t wait = gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT; @@ -1671,7 +1671,7 @@ nopage: got_pg: return page; } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(__alloc_pages_internal); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__alloc_pages_nodemask); /* * Common helper functions. _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mel@xxxxxxxxx are vmscan-low-order-lumpy-reclaim-also-should-use-pageout_io_sync.patch page-allocator-replace-__alloc_pages_internal-with-__alloc_pages_nodemask.patch page-allocator-do-not-sanity-check-order-in-the-fast-path.patch page-allocator-do-not-sanity-check-order-in-the-fast-path-fix.patch page-allocator-do-not-check-numa-node-id-when-the-caller-knows-the-node-is-valid.patch page-allocator-check-only-once-if-the-zonelist-is-suitable-for-the-allocation.patch page-allocator-break-up-the-allocator-entry-point-into-fast-and-slow-paths.patch page-allocator-move-check-for-disabled-anti-fragmentation-out-of-fastpath.patch page-allocator-calculate-the-preferred-zone-for-allocation-only-once.patch page-allocator-calculate-the-preferred-zone-for-allocation-only-once-fix.patch page-allocator-calculate-the-migratetype-for-allocation-only-once.patch page-allocator-calculate-the-alloc_flags-for-allocation-only-once.patch page-allocator-remove-a-branch-by-assuming-__gfp_high-==-alloc_high.patch page-allocator-inline-__rmqueue_smallest.patch page-allocator-inline-buffered_rmqueue.patch page-allocator-inline-__rmqueue_fallback.patch page-allocator-do-not-call-get_pageblock_migratetype-more-than-necessary.patch page-allocator-do-not-disable-interrupts-in-free_page_mlock.patch page-allocator-do-not-setup-zonelist-cache-when-there-is-only-one-node.patch page-allocator-do-not-check-for-compound-pages-during-the-page-allocator-sanity-checks.patch page-allocator-use-allocation-flags-as-an-index-to-the-zone-watermark.patch page-allocator-update-nr_free_pages-only-as-necessary.patch page-allocator-get-the-pageblock-migratetype-without-disabling-interrupts.patch page-allocator-use-a-pre-calculated-value-instead-of-num_online_nodes-in-fast-paths.patch page-allocator-slab-use-nr_online_nodes-to-check-for-a-numa-platform.patch add-debugging-aid-for-memory-initialisation-problems.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