From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail138.messagelabs.com (mail138.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01F3D6B00B7 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:52:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Mel Gorman Subject: [PATCH 06/22] Move check for disabled anti-fragmentation out of fastpath Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:53:11 +0100 Message-Id: <1240408407-21848-7-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: On low-memory systems, anti-fragmentation gets disabled as there is nothing it can do and it would just incur overhead shuffling pages between lists constantly. Currently the check is made in the free page fast path for every page. This patch moves it to a slow path. On machines with low memory, there will be small amount of additional overhead as pages get shuffled between lists but it should quickly settle. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro --- include/linux/mmzone.h | 3 --- mm/page_alloc.c | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index 186ec6a..f82bdba 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -50,9 +50,6 @@ extern int page_group_by_mobility_disabled; static inline int get_pageblock_migratetype(struct page *page) { - if (unlikely(page_group_by_mobility_disabled)) - return MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE; - return get_pageblock_flags_group(page, PB_migrate, PB_migrate_end); } diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 1e09f26..b1ae435 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -172,6 +172,10 @@ int page_group_by_mobility_disabled __read_mostly; static void set_pageblock_migratetype(struct page *page, int migratetype) { + + if (unlikely(page_group_by_mobility_disabled)) + migratetype = MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE; + set_pageblock_flags_group(page, (unsigned long)migratetype, PB_migrate, PB_migrate_end); } -- 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