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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>
Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:05:08 +0000 (17:05 +1000)
commit5f000188f5ccdbb7e3c14ad1c6d4e30b1d8c6bbc
treee8eeb4fed03363db6e15ae25666080ef763add29
parentbef32e55e0c2e3ca91f5dc71540a683e4911bf7c
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