From 9e2c3b2da2aede57193bbb3788d419023104b06f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:49:47 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/page_alloc.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index b036f54f4ba4..697f61371428 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -3408,25 +3408,28 @@ static void setup_zone_migrate_reserve(struct zone *zone) if (page_to_nid(page) != zone_to_nid(zone)) continue; - /* Blocks with reserved pages will never free, skip them. */ - block_end_pfn = min(pfn + pageblock_nr_pages, end_pfn); - if (pageblock_is_reserved(pfn, block_end_pfn)) - continue; - block_migratetype = get_pageblock_migratetype(page); - /* If this block is reserved, account for it */ - if (reserve > 0 && block_migratetype == MIGRATE_RESERVE) { - reserve--; - continue; - } + /* Only test what is necessary when the reserves are not met */ + if (reserve > 0) { + /* Blocks with reserved pages will never free, skip them. */ + block_end_pfn = min(pfn + pageblock_nr_pages, end_pfn); + if (pageblock_is_reserved(pfn, block_end_pfn)) + continue; - /* Suitable for reserving if this block is movable */ - if (reserve > 0 && block_migratetype == MIGRATE_MOVABLE) { - set_pageblock_migratetype(page, MIGRATE_RESERVE); - move_freepages_block(zone, page, MIGRATE_RESERVE); - reserve--; - continue; + /* If this block is reserved, account for it */ + if (block_migratetype == MIGRATE_RESERVE) { + reserve--; + continue; + } + + /* Suitable for reserving if this block is movable */ + if (block_migratetype == MIGRATE_MOVABLE) { + set_pageblock_migratetype(page, MIGRATE_RESERVE); + move_freepages_block(zone, page, MIGRATE_RESERVE); + reserve--; + continue; + } } /* -- 2.39.5