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Commit 48ee5f36 authored by Mel Gorman's avatar Mel Gorman Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm, page_alloc: shortcut watermark checks for order-0 pages



Watermarks have to be checked on every allocation including the number
of pages being allocated and whether reserves can be accessed.  The
reserves only matter if memory is limited and the free_pages adjustment
only applies to high-order pages.  This patch adds a shortcut for
order-0 pages that avoids numerous calculations if there is plenty of
free memory yielding the following performance difference in a page
allocator microbenchmark;

                                             4.6.0-rc2                  4.6.0-rc2
                                         optfair-v1r20             fastmark-v1r20
  Min      alloc-odr0-1               380.00 (  0.00%)           364.00 (  4.21%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-2               273.00 (  0.00%)           262.00 (  4.03%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-4               227.00 (  0.00%)           214.00 (  5.73%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-8               196.00 (  0.00%)           186.00 (  5.10%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-16              183.00 (  0.00%)           173.00 (  5.46%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-32              173.00 (  0.00%)           165.00 (  4.62%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-64              169.00 (  0.00%)           161.00 (  4.73%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-128             169.00 (  0.00%)           159.00 (  5.92%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-256             180.00 (  0.00%)           168.00 (  6.67%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-512             190.00 (  0.00%)           180.00 (  5.26%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-1024            198.00 (  0.00%)           190.00 (  4.04%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-2048            204.00 (  0.00%)           196.00 (  3.92%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-4096            209.00 (  0.00%)           202.00 (  3.35%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-8192            213.00 (  0.00%)           206.00 (  3.29%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-16384           214.00 (  0.00%)           206.00 (  3.74%)

Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 30534755
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