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mm: cma: discard clean pages during contiguous allocation instead of migration
authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:57:44 +0000 (10:57 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:46:17 +0000 (18:46 +1000)
commit9bef967ab38c8036b254fa625c2bb18e03099879
treefb05ad9c200bbd346b48ffeb7809a9c6c833f042
parentfdfb65fad39f359ff93c2a40cb7c8d8babd5a56f
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