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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>
Fri, 9 Dec 2011 04:52:33 +0000 (15:52 +1100)
commitef20756a951e59080a16a826808cffd68e219db6
treed83105c5fb3f70e9fb64e01770e80d98352972de
parentba925dc43542ed038a9af6ffa8bf75aed092b451
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