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author | David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> | 2020-10-15 20:09:30 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-10-16 11:11:18 -0700 |
commit | 293ffa5ebb9c08a77d8de458166c31b4d7b0cd65 (patch) | |
tree | 0e97070f6b2a70fae44904bd0e9515d62a44bfda /mm/page_alloc.c | |
parent | 47b6a24a23825ae7b33ff11396980da7c353843d (diff) | |
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mm/page_alloc: move pages to tail in move_to_free_list()
Whenever we move pages between freelists via move_to_free_list()/
move_freepages_block(), we don't actually touch the pages:
1. Page isolation doesn't actually touch the pages, it simply isolates
pageblocks and moves all free pages to the MIGRATE_ISOLATE freelist.
When undoing isolation, we move the pages back to the target list.
2. Page stealing (steal_suitable_fallback()) moves free pages directly
between lists without touching them.
3. reserve_highatomic_pageblock()/unreserve_highatomic_pageblock() moves
free pages directly between freelists without touching them.
We already place pages to the tail of the freelists when undoing isolation
via __putback_isolated_page(), let's do it in any case (e.g., if order <=
pageblock_order) and document the behavior. To simplify, let's move the
pages to the tail for all move_to_free_list()/move_freepages_block() users.
In 2., the target list is empty, so there should be no change. In 3., we
might observe a change, however, highatomic is more concerned about
allocations succeeding than cache hotness - if we ever realize this change
degrades a workload, we can special-case this instance and add a proper
comment.
This change results in all pages getting onlined via online_pages() to be
placed to the tail of the freelist.
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Scott Cheloha <cheloha@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201005121534.15649-4-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index eb79d2af9de6..ea7b697bcf6c 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -901,13 +901,17 @@ static inline void add_to_free_list_tail(struct page *page, struct zone *zone, area->nr_free++; } -/* Used for pages which are on another list */ +/* + * Used for pages which are on another list. Move the pages to the tail + * of the list - so the moved pages won't immediately be considered for + * allocation again (e.g., optimization for memory onlining). + */ static inline void move_to_free_list(struct page *page, struct zone *zone, unsigned int order, int migratetype) { struct free_area *area = &zone->free_area[order]; - list_move(&page->lru, &area->free_list[migratetype]); + list_move_tail(&page->lru, &area->free_list[migratetype]); } static inline void del_page_from_free_list(struct page *page, struct zone *zone, @@ -2340,7 +2344,7 @@ static inline struct page *__rmqueue_cma_fallback(struct zone *zone, #endif /* - * Move the free pages in a range to the free lists of the requested type. + * Move the free pages in a range to the freelist tail of the requested type. * Note that start_page and end_pages are not aligned on a pageblock * boundary. If alignment is required, use move_freepages_block() */ |