From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Linux-FSDevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/17] mm: page_alloc: Do not update zlc unless the zlc is active
Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 11:04:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5368F9F0.5070702@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1398933888-4940-2-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de>
On 05/01/2014 04:44 AM, 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 <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-01 8:44 [PATCH 00/17] Misc page alloc, shmem, mark_page_accessed and page_waitqueue optimisations Mel Gorman
2014-05-01 8:44 ` [PATCH 01/17] mm: page_alloc: Do not update zlc unless the zlc is active Mel Gorman
2014-05-01 13:25 ` Johannes Weiner
2014-05-06 15:04 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2014-05-01 8:44 ` [PATCH 02/17] mm: page_alloc: Do not treat a zone that cannot be used for dirty pages as "full" Mel Gorman
2014-05-06 15:09 ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-01 8:44 ` [PATCH 03/17] mm: page_alloc: Use jump labels to avoid checking number_of_cpusets Mel Gorman
2014-05-06 15:10 ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-06 20:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-06 22:21 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-07 9:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-07 9:43 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-01 8:44 ` [PATCH 04/17] mm: page_alloc: Calculate classzone_idx once from the zonelist ref Mel Gorman
2014-05-06 16:01 ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-01 8:44 ` [PATCH 05/17] mm: page_alloc: Only check the zone id check if pages are buddies Mel Gorman
2014-05-06 16:48 ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-01 8:44 ` [PATCH 06/17] mm: page_alloc: Only check the alloc flags and gfp_mask for dirty once Mel Gorman
2014-05-06 17:24 ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-01 8:44 ` [PATCH 07/17] mm: page_alloc: Take the ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK check out of the fast path Mel Gorman
2014-05-06 17:25 ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-01 8:44 ` [PATCH 08/17] mm: page_alloc: Use word-based accesses for get/set pageblock bitmaps Mel Gorman
2014-05-02 22:34 ` Sasha Levin
2014-05-04 13:14 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-05 12:40 ` Vlastimil Babka
2014-05-06 9:13 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-06 14:42 ` Vlastimil Babka
2014-05-06 15:12 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-06 20:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-06 22:24 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-01 8:44 ` [PATCH 09/17] mm: page_alloc: Reduce number of times page_to_pfn is called Mel Gorman
2014-05-06 18:47 ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-01 8:44 ` [PATCH 10/17] mm: page_alloc: Lookup pageblock migratetype with IRQs enabled during free Mel Gorman
2014-05-06 18:48 ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-01 8:44 ` [PATCH 11/17] mm: page_alloc: Use unsigned int for order in more places Mel Gorman
2014-05-01 14:35 ` Dave Hansen
2014-05-01 15:11 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-01 15:38 ` Dave Hansen
2014-05-06 18:49 ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-01 8:44 ` [PATCH 12/17] mm: page_alloc: Convert hot/cold parameter and immediate callers to bool Mel Gorman
2014-05-06 18:49 ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-01 8:44 ` [PATCH 13/17] mm: shmem: Avoid atomic operation during shmem_getpage_gfp Mel Gorman
2014-05-06 18:53 ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-01 8:44 ` [PATCH 14/17] mm: Do not use atomic operations when releasing pages Mel Gorman
2014-05-01 13:29 ` Johannes Weiner
2014-05-01 13:39 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-01 13:47 ` Johannes Weiner
2014-05-06 18:54 ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-01 8:44 ` [PATCH 15/17] mm: Do not use unnecessary atomic operations when adding pages to the LRU Mel Gorman
2014-05-01 13:33 ` Johannes Weiner
2014-05-01 13:40 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-06 15:30 ` Vlastimil Babka
2014-05-06 15:55 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-01 8:44 ` [PATCH 16/17] mm: Non-atomically mark page accessed during page cache allocation where possible Mel Gorman
2014-05-01 8:44 ` [PATCH 17/17] mm: filemap: Avoid unnecessary barries and waitqueue lookup in unlock_page fastpath Mel Gorman
2014-05-05 10:50 ` Jan Kara
2014-05-07 9:03 ` Mel Gorman
2014-05-06 20:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
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