Re: [PATCH] earlier allocation of order 0 pages from pcp in __alloc_pages

[Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>]

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 15:01 -0700, Seth, Rohit wrote:
> +/* This routine allocates a order 0 page from cpu's pcp list when one is present.
> + * It does not try to remove the pages from zone_free_list as the zone low
> + * water mark has not yet been checked.
> + */
> +
> +static struct page *
> +remove_from_pcp(struct zone *zone, unsigned int __nocast gfp_flags)
> +{
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +	struct per_cpu_pages *pcp;
> +	struct page *page = NULL;
> +	int cold = !!(gfp_flags & __GFP_COLD);
> +
> +	pcp = &zone_pcp(zone, get_cpu())->pcp[cold];
> +	local_irq_save(flags);
> +	if (pcp->count > pcp->low) {
> +		page = list_entry(pcp->list.next, struct page, lru);
> +		list_del(&page->lru);
> +		pcp->count--;
> +	}
> +	local_irq_restore(flags);
> +	put_cpu();
> +
> +	if (page != NULL) {
> +		mod_page_state_zone(zone, pgalloc, 1 );
> +		prep_new_page(page, 0);
> +
> +		if (gfp_flags & __GFP_ZERO)
> +			prep_zero_page(page, 0, gfp_flags);
> +	}
> +	return page;
> +}
> +

That looks to share a decent amount of logic with the pcp code in
buffered_rmqueue.  Any chance it could be consolidated instead of
copy/pasting?

-- Dave