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author | Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> | 2009-06-16 15:31:52 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-06-16 19:47:32 -0700 |
commit | d239171e4f6efd58d7e423853056b1b6a74f1446 (patch) | |
tree | 3b0d96abf99e5add7bfc6236f745503b540bd350 /include | |
parent | 6c0db4664b49417d80988953e69c323721353227 (diff) | |
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page allocator: replace __alloc_pages_internal() with __alloc_pages_nodemask()
The start of a large patch series to clean up and optimise the page
allocator.
The performance improvements are in a wide range depending on the exact
machine but the results I've seen so fair are approximately;
kernbench: 0 to 0.12% (elapsed time)
0.49% to 3.20% (sys time)
aim9: -4% to 30% (for page_test and brk_test)
tbench: -1% to 4%
hackbench: -2.5% to 3.45% (mostly within the noise though)
netperf-udp -1.34% to 4.06% (varies between machines a bit)
netperf-tcp -0.44% to 5.22% (varies between machines a bit)
I haven't sysbench figures at hand, but previously they were within the
-0.5% to 2% range.
On netperf, the client and server were bound to opposite number CPUs to
maximise the problems with cache line bouncing of the struct pages so I
expect different people to report different results for netperf depending
on their exact machine and how they ran the test (different machines, same
cpus client/server, shared cache but two threads client/server, different
socket client/server etc).
I also measured the vmlinux sizes for a single x86-based config with
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO enabled but not CONFIG_DEBUG_VM. The core of the
.config is based on the Debian Lenny kernel config so I expect it to be
reasonably typical.
This patch:
__alloc_pages_internal is the core page allocator function but essentially
it is an alias of __alloc_pages_nodemask. Naming a publicly available and
exported function "internal" is also a big ugly. This patch renames
__alloc_pages_internal() to __alloc_pages_nodemask() and deletes the old
nodemask function.
Warning - This patch renames an exported symbol. No kernel driver is
affected by external drivers calling __alloc_pages_internal() should
change the call to __alloc_pages_nodemask() without any alteration of
parameters.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/gfp.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h index 3760e7c5de02..549ec5583103 100644 --- a/include/linux/gfp.h +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h @@ -172,24 +172,16 @@ static inline void arch_alloc_page(struct page *page, int order) { } #endif struct page * -__alloc_pages_internal(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, +__alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, struct zonelist *zonelist, nodemask_t *nodemask); static inline struct page * __alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, struct zonelist *zonelist) { - return __alloc_pages_internal(gfp_mask, order, zonelist, NULL); + return __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_mask, order, zonelist, NULL); } -static inline struct page * -__alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, - struct zonelist *zonelist, nodemask_t *nodemask) -{ - return __alloc_pages_internal(gfp_mask, order, zonelist, nodemask); -} - - static inline struct page *alloc_pages_node(int nid, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order) { |