The patch titled page allocator: replace __alloc_pages_internal() with __alloc_pages_nodemask() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was page-allocator-replace-__alloc_pages_internal-with-__alloc_pages_nodemask.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree 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> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@xxxxxx> 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 @@ -172,24 +172,16 @@ 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 @@ -1458,7 +1458,7 @@ 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; @@ -1667,7 +1667,7 @@ 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 origin.patch linux-next.patch page_alloc-oops-when-setting-percpu_pagelist_fraction.patch memcg-fix-lru-rotation-in-isolate_pages.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