mm: page_alloc: do not update zlc unless the zlc is active
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Thu, 28 Aug 2014 18:35:16 +0000 (19:35 +0100)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Fri, 26 Sep 2014 09:52:02 +0000 (11:52 +0200)
commit55dcadc2753639b07efed5d8baafeab47d4613a7
treef85a2218b3f8af09a2ac0096dc2f5e0e9ce62615
parent69aa12f2961a0310d58375815fa391e5528a79b3
mm: page_alloc: do not update zlc unless the zlc is active

commit 65bb371984d6a2c909244eb749e482bb40b72e36 upstream.

The zlc is used on NUMA machines to quickly skip over zones that are full.
 However it is always updated, even for the first zone scanned when the
zlc might not even be active.  As it's a write to a bitmap that
potentially bounces cache line it's deceptively expensive and most
machines will not care.  Only update the zlc if it was active.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
mm/page_alloc.c