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Commit 02c6de8d authored by Minchan Kim's avatar Minchan Kim Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: cma: discard clean pages during contiguous allocation instead of migration



Drop clean cache pages instead of migration during alloc_contig_range() to
minimise allocation latency by reducing the amount of migration that is
necessary.  It's useful for CMA because latency of migration is more
important than evicting the background process's working set.  In
addition, as pages are reclaimed then fewer free pages for migration
targets are required so it avoids memory reclaiming to get free pages,
which is a contributory factor to increased latency.

I measured elapsed time of __alloc_contig_migrate_range() which migrates
10M in 40M movable zone in QEMU machine.

Before - 146ms, After - 7ms

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nommu build]
Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: default avatarKyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 70400303
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