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| author | Mel Gorman | 2016-07-28 15:46:53 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2016-07-28 16:07:41 -0700 |
| commit | 3b8c0be43cb844b3cd26fac00e7663a1201176fd (patch) | |
| tree | 398947f7f2b165b9a891f176ea19bec84f269224 /mm/page_alloc.c | |
| parent | e6cbd7f2efb433d717af72aa8510a9db6f7a7e05 (diff) | |
mm: page_alloc: cache the last node whose dirty limit is reached
If a page is about to be dirtied then the page allocator attempts to
limit the total number of dirty pages that exists in any given zone.
The call to node_dirty_ok is expensive so this patch records if the last
pgdat examined hit the dirty limits. In some cases, this reduces the
number of calls to node_dirty_ok().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-31-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 1dd0f1f218db..7427e0e83642 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -2848,6 +2848,8 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, int alloc_flags, { struct zoneref *z = ac->preferred_zoneref; struct zone *zone; + struct pglist_data *last_pgdat_dirty_limit = NULL; + /* * Scan zonelist, looking for a zone with enough free. * See also __cpuset_node_allowed() comment in kernel/cpuset.c. @@ -2880,8 +2882,15 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, int alloc_flags, * will require awareness of nodes in the * dirty-throttling and the flusher threads. */ - if (ac->spread_dirty_pages && !node_dirty_ok(zone->zone_pgdat)) - continue; + if (ac->spread_dirty_pages) { + if (last_pgdat_dirty_limit == zone->zone_pgdat) + continue; + + if (!node_dirty_ok(zone->zone_pgdat)) { + last_pgdat_dirty_limit = zone->zone_pgdat; + continue; + } + } mark = zone->watermark[alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_MASK]; if (!zone_watermark_fast(zone, order, mark, |