[PATCH 27/27] mm: page_alloc: Cache the last node whose dirty limit is reached
From: Mel Gorman <hidden>
Date: 2016-02-23 15:21:31
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lkml
Subsystem:
memory management, memory management - page allocator, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Morton, Vlastimil Babka, Linus Torvalds
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(). Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <redacted> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 4fcd6298b9a1..b20713c42bd1 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c@@ -2580,6 +2580,7 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, int alloc_flags, struct zoneref *z; struct page *page = NULL; struct zone *zone; + struct pglist_data *last_pgdat_dirty_limit = NULL; /* * Scan zonelist, looking for a zone with enough free.
@@ -2619,8 +2620,15 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, int alloc_flags, * will require awareness of zones 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_ok(zone, order, mark,
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