[merged] mm-page_alloc-drain-the-requested-list-first-during-bulk-free.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged] mm-page_alloc-drain-the-requested-list-first-during-bulk-free.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm/page_alloc: drain the requested list first during bulk free
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-page_alloc-drain-the-requested-list-first-during-bulk-free.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Subject: mm/page_alloc: drain the requested list first during bulk free

Prior to the series, pindex 0 (order-0 MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE) was always
skipped first and the precise reason is forgotten.  A potential reason may
have been to artificially preserve MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE but there is no
reason why that would be optimal as it depends on the workload.  The more
likely reason is that it was less complicated to do a pre-increment
instead of a post-increment in terms of overall code flow.  As
free_pcppages_bulk() now typically receives the pindex of the PCP list
that exceeded high, always start draining that list.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220217002227.5739-5-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/page_alloc.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-drain-the-requested-list-first-during-bulk-free
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1460,6 +1460,10 @@ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zo
 	 * below while (list_empty(list)) loop.
 	 */
 	count = min(pcp->count, count);
+
+	/* Ensure requested pindex is drained first. */
+	pindex = pindex - 1;
+
 	while (count > 0) {
 		struct list_head *list;
 		int nr_pages;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from mgorman@techsingularity.net are