From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Weiner Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/16] mm: page_alloc: Do not update zlc unless the zlc is active Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:52:16 -0400 Message-ID: <20140418175216.GA29210@cmpxchg.org> References: <1397832643-14275-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> <1397832643-14275-4-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linux-MM , Linux-FSDevel To: Mel Gorman Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1397832643-14275-4-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 03:50:30PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > The zlc is used on NUMA machines to quickly skip over zones that are full. > However it is always updated, even for the first zone scanned when the > zlc might not even be active. As it's a write to a bitmap that potentially > bounces cache line it's deceptively expensive and most machines will not > care. Only update the zlc if it was active. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Johannes Weiner -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org