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Commit b121186a authored by Alex Shi's avatar Alex Shi Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: correct page->pfmemalloc to fix deactivate_slab regression



Commit cfd19c5a ("mm: only set page->pfmemalloc when
ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was used") tried to narrow down page->pfmemalloc
setting, but it missed some places the pfmemalloc should be set.

So, in __slab_alloc, the unalignment pfmemalloc and ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS
cause incorrect deactivate_slab() on our core2 server:

    64.73%           fio  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] _raw_spin_lock
                     |
                     --- _raw_spin_lock
                        |
                        |---0.34%-- deactivate_slab
                        |          __slab_alloc
                        |          kmem_cache_alloc
                        |          |

That causes our fio sync write performance to have a 40% regression.

Move the checking in get_page_from_freelist() which resolves this issue.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Tested-by: default avatarSage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 5ed12f12
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