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page allocator: calculate the preferred zone for allocation only once
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page-allocator-calculate-the-preferred-zone-for-allocation-only-once.patch
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Subject: page allocator: calculate the preferred zone for allocation only once
From: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
get_page_from_freelist() can be called multiple times for an allocation.
Part of this calculates the preferred_zone which is the first usable zone
in the zonelist but the zone depends on the GFP flags specified at the
beginning of the allocation call. This patch calculates preferred_zone
once. It's safe to do this because if preferred_zone is NULL at the start
of the call, no amount of direct reclaim or other actions will change the
fact the allocation will fail.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~page-allocator-calculate-the-preferred-zone-for-allocation-only-once mm/page_alloc.c
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~page-allocator-calculate-the-preferred-zone-for-allocation-only-once
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1392,23 +1392,17 @@ static void zlc_mark_zone_full(struct zo
*/
static struct page *
get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask, unsigned int order,
- struct zonelist *zonelist, int high_zoneidx, int alloc_flags)
+ struct zonelist *zonelist, int high_zoneidx, int alloc_flags,
+ struct zone *preferred_zone)
{
struct zoneref *z;
struct page *page = NULL;
int classzone_idx;
- struct zone *zone, *preferred_zone;
+ struct zone *zone;
nodemask_t *allowednodes = NULL;/* zonelist_cache approximation */
int zlc_active = 0; /* set if using zonelist_cache */
int did_zlc_setup = 0; /* just call zlc_setup() one time */
- (void)first_zones_zonelist(zonelist, high_zoneidx, nodemask,
- &preferred_zone);
- if (!preferred_zone)
- return NULL;
-
- classzone_idx = zone_idx(preferred_zone);
-
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(order >= MAX_ORDER))
return NULL;
@@ -1504,7 +1498,7 @@ should_alloc_retry(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsig
static inline struct page *
__alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
struct zonelist *zonelist, enum zone_type high_zoneidx,
- nodemask_t *nodemask)
+ nodemask_t *nodemask, struct zone *preferred_zone)
{
struct page *page;
@@ -1521,7 +1515,8 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, un
*/
page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask|__GFP_HARDWALL, nodemask,
order, zonelist, high_zoneidx,
- ALLOC_WMARK_HIGH|ALLOC_CPUSET);
+ ALLOC_WMARK_HIGH|ALLOC_CPUSET,
+ preferred_zone);
if (page)
goto out;
@@ -1541,7 +1536,8 @@ out:
static inline struct page *
__alloc_pages_direct_reclaim(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
struct zonelist *zonelist, enum zone_type high_zoneidx,
- nodemask_t *nodemask, int alloc_flags, unsigned long *did_some_progress)
+ nodemask_t *nodemask, int alloc_flags, struct zone *preferred_zone,
+ unsigned long *did_some_progress)
{
struct page *page = NULL;
struct reclaim_state reclaim_state;
@@ -1573,7 +1569,8 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim(gfp_t gfp_m
if (likely(*did_some_progress))
page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask, nodemask, order,
- zonelist, high_zoneidx, alloc_flags);
+ zonelist, high_zoneidx,
+ alloc_flags, preferred_zone);
return page;
}
@@ -1593,13 +1590,14 @@ is_allocation_high_priority(struct task_
static inline struct page *
__alloc_pages_high_priority(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
struct zonelist *zonelist, enum zone_type high_zoneidx,
- nodemask_t *nodemask)
+ nodemask_t *nodemask, struct zone *preferred_zone)
{
struct page *page;
do {
page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask, nodemask, order,
- zonelist, high_zoneidx, ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS);
+ zonelist, high_zoneidx, ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS,
+ preferred_zone);
if (!page && gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)
congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/50);
@@ -1622,7 +1620,7 @@ void wake_all_kswapd(unsigned int order,
static inline struct page *
__alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
struct zonelist *zonelist, enum zone_type high_zoneidx,
- nodemask_t *nodemask)
+ nodemask_t *nodemask, struct zone *preferred_zone)
{
const gfp_t wait = gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT;
struct page *page = NULL;
@@ -1672,7 +1670,8 @@ restart:
* See also cpuset_zone_allowed() comment in kernel/cpuset.c.
*/
page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask, nodemask, order, zonelist,
- high_zoneidx, alloc_flags);
+ high_zoneidx, alloc_flags,
+ preferred_zone);
if (page)
goto got_pg;
@@ -1682,7 +1681,7 @@ rebalance:
/* Do not dip into emergency reserves if specified */
if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC)) {
page = __alloc_pages_high_priority(gfp_mask, order,
- zonelist, high_zoneidx, nodemask);
+ zonelist, high_zoneidx, nodemask, preferred_zone);
if (page)
goto got_pg;
}
@@ -1699,7 +1698,8 @@ rebalance:
page = __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim(gfp_mask, order,
zonelist, high_zoneidx,
nodemask,
- alloc_flags, &did_some_progress);
+ alloc_flags, preferred_zone,
+ &did_some_progress);
if (page)
goto got_pg;
@@ -1711,7 +1711,7 @@ rebalance:
if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY)) {
page = __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_mask, order,
zonelist, high_zoneidx,
- nodemask);
+ nodemask, preferred_zone);
if (page)
goto got_pg;
@@ -1756,6 +1756,7 @@ __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, u
struct zonelist *zonelist, nodemask_t *nodemask)
{
enum zone_type high_zoneidx = gfp_zone(gfp_mask);
+ struct zone *preferred_zone;
struct page *page;
lockdep_trace_alloc(gfp_mask);
@@ -1773,11 +1774,20 @@ __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, u
if (unlikely(!zonelist->_zonerefs->zone))
return NULL;
+ /* The preferred zone is used for statistics later */
+ (void)first_zones_zonelist(zonelist, high_zoneidx, nodemask,
+ &preferred_zone);
+ if (!preferred_zone)
+ return NULL;
+
+ /* First allocation attempt */
page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask|__GFP_HARDWALL, nodemask, order,
- zonelist, high_zoneidx, ALLOC_WMARK_LOW|ALLOC_CPUSET);
+ zonelist, high_zoneidx, ALLOC_WMARK_LOW|ALLOC_CPUSET,
+ preferred_zone);
if (unlikely(!page))
page = __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_mask, order,
- zonelist, high_zoneidx, nodemask);
+ zonelist, high_zoneidx, nodemask,
+ preferred_zone);
return page;
}
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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
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