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mm: cma: discard clean pages during contiguous allocation instead of migration
authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:19:36 +0000 (10:19 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fri, 5 Oct 2012 04:01:00 +0000 (14:01 +1000)
commita586d02949f0ae29cf46e638e4bcec2b91d9881d
tree9288c891c8331584ceb14e60a219500d377f43d9
parent9b4aa0876d923c8b40bd58b9ca2c3f9422aed1f8
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