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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>
Mon, 8 Oct 2012 03:00:07 +0000 (14:00 +1100)
commit70647c4e712bcfa25dedbff2a689742ea537286d
tree2d03f502df5158ff2077a3f080687c35d3b6008c
parent82cdc35bebed853cde6b8c62312be74a55c20bd6
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