From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 807996B00BB for ; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:52:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Mel Gorman Subject: [PATCH 16/22] Do not setup zonelist cache when there is only one node Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:53:21 +0100 Message-Id: <1240408407-21848-17-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> In-Reply-To: <1240408407-21848-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> References: <1240408407-21848-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Mel Gorman , Linux Memory Management List Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro , Christoph Lameter , Nick Piggin , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Lin Ming , Zhang Yanmin , Peter Zijlstra , Pekka Enberg , Andrew Morton List-ID: There is a zonelist cache which is used to track zones that are not in the allowed cpuset or found to be recently full. This is to reduce cache footprint on large machines. On smaller machines, it just incurs cost for no gain. This patch only uses the zonelist cache when there are NUMA nodes. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter --- mm/page_alloc.c | 7 +++++-- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 7f45de1..e59bb80 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1467,8 +1467,11 @@ this_zone_full: if (NUMA_BUILD) zlc_mark_zone_full(zonelist, z); try_next_zone: - if (NUMA_BUILD && !did_zlc_setup) { - /* we do zlc_setup after the first zone is tried */ + if (NUMA_BUILD && !did_zlc_setup && num_online_nodes() > 1) { + /* + * we do zlc_setup after the first zone is tried but only + * if there are multiple nodes make it worthwhile + */ allowednodes = zlc_setup(zonelist, alloc_flags); zlc_active = 1; did_zlc_setup = 1; -- 1.5.6.5 -- 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