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| author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> | 2022-03-23 00:43:38 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-03-23 01:57:06 +0300 |
| commit | d61372bc41cfe91d6170434fc44b6af49cd2c755 (patch) | |
| tree | ccd489533e8668589210aef8daec1c320bb46f4a /include/linux | |
| parent | fd56eef258a17bbc8eda2ca773fa538f354c5f49 (diff) | |
| download | linux-d61372bc41cfe91d6170434fc44b6af49cd2c755.tar.xz | |
mm/page_alloc: drain the requested list first during bulk free
Prior to the series, pindex 0 (order-0 MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE) was always
skipped first and the precise reason is forgotten. A potential reason
may have been to artificially preserve MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE but there is no
reason why that would be optimal as it depends on the workload. The
more likely reason is that it was less complicated to do a pre-increment
instead of a post-increment in terms of overall code flow. As
free_pcppages_bulk() now typically receives the pindex of the PCP list
that exceeded high, always start draining that list.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220217002227.5739-5-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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