From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit 65bb371984d6a2c909244eb749e482bb40b72e36 upstream. The zlc is used on NUMA machines to quickly skip over zones that are full. However it is always updated, even for the first zone scanned when the zlc might not even be active. As it's a write to a bitmap that potentially bounces cache line it's deceptively expensive and most machines will not care. Only update the zlc if it was active. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 7139ed7c9a70..2834c31ad0c1 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -2034,7 +2034,7 @@ try_this_zone: if (page) break; this_zone_full: - if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NUMA)) + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NUMA) && zlc_active) zlc_mark_zone_full(zonelist, z); } -- 2.1.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html