From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pd0-f181.google.com (mail-pd0-f181.google.com [209.85.192.181]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B6C36B0096 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:25:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pd0-f181.google.com with SMTP id g10so319249pdj.26 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:25:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from /spool/local by e28smtp02.in.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 04:55:10 +0530 Received: from d28relay02.in.ibm.com (d28relay02.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.59]) by d28dlp03.in.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2363125803F for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 04:55:20 +0530 (IST) Received: from d28av03.in.ibm.com (d28av03.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.65]) by d28relay02.in.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id r8PNRRfp40894482 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 04:57:27 +0530 Received: from d28av03.in.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d28av03.in.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id r8PNP5XM012271 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 04:55:06 +0530 From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" Subject: [RFC PATCH v4 32/40] mm: Set pageblock migratetype when allocating regions from region allocator Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 04:50:59 +0530 Message-ID: <20130925232057.26184.12331.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20130925231250.26184.31438.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> References: <20130925231250.26184.31438.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, mgorman@suse.de, dave@sr71.net, hannes@cmpxchg.org, tony.luck@intel.com, matthew.garrett@nebula.com, riel@redhat.com, arjan@linux.intel.com, srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com, willy@linux.intel.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, lenb@kernel.org, rjw@sisk.pl Cc: gargankita@gmail.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com, andi@firstfloor.org, isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com, santosh.shilimkar@ti.com, kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com, srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org We would like to maintain memory regions such that all memory pertaining to given a memory region serves allocations of a single migratetype. IOW, we don't want to permanently mix allocations of different migratetypes within the same region. So, when allocating a region from the region allocator to the page allocator, set the pageblock migratetype of all that memory to the migratetype for which the page allocator requested memory. Note that this still allows temporary sharing of pages between different migratetypes; it just ensures that there is no *permanent* mixing of migratetypes within a given memory region. An important advantage to be noted here is that the region allocator doesn't have to manage memory in a granularity lesser than a memory region, in *any* situation. This is because the freepage migratetype and the fallback mechanism allows temporary sharing of free memory between different migratetypes when the system is short on memory, but eventually all the memory gets freed to the original migratetype (because we set the pageblock migratetype of all the freepages appropriately when allocating regions). This greatly simplifies the design of the region allocator, since it doesn't have to keep track of memory in smaller chunks than a memory region. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat --- mm/page_alloc.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index fd32533..c4cbd80 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1017,8 +1017,10 @@ static void __del_from_region_allocator(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order, reg_area = ®_alloc->region[region_id].region_area[order]; ralloc_list = ®_area->list; - list_for_each_entry(page, ralloc_list, lru) + list_for_each_entry(page, ralloc_list, lru) { set_freepage_migratetype(page, migratetype); + set_pageblock_migratetype(page, migratetype); + } free_list = &zone->free_area[order].free_list[migratetype]; -- 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