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Commit 58f17117 authored by Sergey Senozhatsky's avatar Sergey Senozhatsky Committed by Linus Torvalds
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zsmalloc: partial page ordering within a fullness_list



We want to see more ZS_FULL pages and less ZS_ALMOST_{FULL, EMPTY}
pages.  Put a page with higher ->inuse count first within its
->fullness_list, which will give us better chances to fill up this page
with new objects (find_get_zspage() return ->fullness_list head for new
object allocation), so some zspages will become ZS_ALMOST_FULL/ZS_FULL
quicker.

It performs a trivial and cheap ->inuse compare which does not slow down
zsmalloc and in the worst case keeps the list pages in no particular
order.

A more expensive solution could sort fullness_list by ->inuse count.

[minchan@kernel.org: code adjustments]
Signed-off-by: default avatarSergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent ab9d306d
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