From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FD806B002D for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:40:04 -0500 (EST) Received: by bke17 with SMTP id 17so2911873bke.14 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:40:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: [PATCH v3 1/4] mm: add free_hot_cold_page_list helper From: Konstantin Khlebnikov Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:39:57 +0300 Message-ID: <20111111123957.7371.72792.stgit@zurg> In-Reply-To: <20110729075837.12274.58405.stgit@localhost6> References: <20110729075837.12274.58405.stgit@localhost6> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton Cc: Hugh Dickins , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Minchan Kim This patch adds helper free_hot_cold_page_list() to free list of 0-order pages. It frees pages directly from the list without temporary page-vector. It also calls trace_mm_pagevec_free() to simulate pagevec_free() behaviour. bloat-o-meter: add/remove: 1/1 grow/shrink: 1/3 up/down: 267/-295 (-28) function old new delta free_hot_cold_page_list - 264 +264 get_page_from_freelist 2129 2132 +3 __pagevec_free 243 239 -4 split_free_page 380 373 -7 release_pages 606 510 -96 free_page_list 188 - -188 v2: Remove list reinititialization. v3: Always free pages in reverse order. The most recently added struct page, the most likely to be hot. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov --- include/linux/gfp.h | 1 + mm/page_alloc.c | 13 +++++++++++++ mm/swap.c | 14 +++----------- mm/vmscan.c | 20 +------------------- 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h index 3a76faf..6562958 100644 --- a/include/linux/gfp.h +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h @@ -358,6 +358,7 @@ void *alloc_pages_exact_nid(int nid, size_t size, gfp_t gfp_mask); extern void __free_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order); extern void free_pages(unsigned long addr, unsigned int order); extern void free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, int cold); +extern void free_hot_cold_page_list(struct list_head *list, int cold); #define __free_page(page) __free_pages((page), 0) #define free_page(addr) free_pages((addr), 0) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 9dd443d..5093114 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1211,6 +1211,19 @@ out: } /* + * Free a list of 0-order pages + */ +void free_hot_cold_page_list(struct list_head *list, int cold) +{ + struct page *page, *next; + + list_for_each_entry_safe(page, next, list, lru) { + trace_mm_pagevec_free(page, cold); + free_hot_cold_page(page, cold); + } +} + +/* * split_page takes a non-compound higher-order page, and splits it into * n (1<lru_lock, flags); - zone = NULL; - } - __pagevec_free(&pages_to_free); - pagevec_reinit(&pages_to_free); - } + list_add(&page->lru, &pages_to_free); } if (zone) spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lru_lock, flags); - pagevec_free(&pages_to_free); + free_hot_cold_page_list(&pages_to_free, cold); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(release_pages); diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index a1893c0..f4be53d 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -728,24 +728,6 @@ static enum page_references page_check_references(struct page *page, return PAGEREF_RECLAIM; } -static noinline_for_stack void free_page_list(struct list_head *free_pages) -{ - struct pagevec freed_pvec; - struct page *page, *tmp; - - pagevec_init(&freed_pvec, 1); - - list_for_each_entry_safe(page, tmp, free_pages, lru) { - list_del(&page->lru); - if (!pagevec_add(&freed_pvec, page)) { - __pagevec_free(&freed_pvec); - pagevec_reinit(&freed_pvec); - } - } - - pagevec_free(&freed_pvec); -} - /* * shrink_page_list() returns the number of reclaimed pages */ @@ -1009,7 +991,7 @@ keep_lumpy: if (nr_dirty && nr_dirty == nr_congested && scanning_global_lru(sc)) zone_set_flag(zone, ZONE_CONGESTED); - free_page_list(&free_pages); + free_hot_cold_page_list(&free_pages, 1); list_splice(&ret_pages, page_list); count_vm_events(PGACTIVATE, pgactivate); -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org