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mm: cma: discard clean pages during contiguous allocation instead of migration
authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:58:57 +0000 (10:58 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:46:00 +0000 (20:46 +1000)
commit1cf84a2d2da9ee49e8c8912e7ad790ae897ed598
treea377d8c85c934648e371f94eda392ffe4783d6b8
parent33e8103ef57080a6b44aa6a09c6201733083af94
mm: cma: discard clean pages during contiguous allocation instead of migration

Drop clean cache pages instead of migration during alloc_contig_range() to
minimise allocation latency by reducing the amount of migration that is
necessary.  It's useful for CMA because latency of migration is more
important than evicting the background process's working set.  In
addition, as pages are reclaimed then fewer free pages for migration
targets are required so it avoids memory reclaiming to get free pages,
which is a contributory factor to increased latency.

I measured elapsed time of __alloc_contig_migrate_range() which migrates
10M in 40M movable zone in QEMU machine.

Before - 146ms, After - 7ms

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/internal.h
mm/page_alloc.c
mm/vmscan.c