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mm: reduce the amount of work done when updating min_free_kbytes
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Thu, 8 Dec 2011 04:38:55 +0000 (15:38 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:48:03 +0000 (16:48 +1100)
commit23abaa77590db5989275ef8055d04c26672f543d
tree8daeb0eafa9f1fe5d39a87a248dc0ed4abd6f502
parentd04be29de62b542f8e6ded6508d8114ca2de31ec
mm: reduce the amount of work done when updating min_free_kbytes

When min_free_kbytes is updated, some pageblocks are marked
MIGRATE_RESERVE.  Ordinarily, this work is unnoticable as it happens early
in boot but on large machines with 1TB of memory, this has been reported
to delay boot times, probably due to the NUMA distances involved.

The bulk of the work is due to calling calling pageblock_is_reserved() an
unnecessary amount of times and accessing far more struct page metadata
than is necessary.  This patch significantly reduces the amount of work
done by setup_zone_migrate_reserve() improving boot times on 1TB machines.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c