linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: cma: free cma page to buddy instead of being cpu hot page

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Date:	Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:04:09 -0700
From:	Laura Abbott <lauraa@...eaurora.org>
To:	zhang.mingjun@...aro.org, minchan@...nel.org,
	m.szyprowski@...sung.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	mgorman@...e.de, haojian.zhuang@...aro.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
CC:	Mingjun Zhang <troy.zhangmingjun@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: cma: free cma page to buddy instead of being cpu
 hot  page

On 10/28/2013 4:42 AM, zhang.mingjun@...aro.org wrote:
> From: Mingjun Zhang <troy.zhangmingjun@...aro.org>
>
> free_contig_range frees cma pages one by one and MIGRATE_CMA pages will be
> used as MIGRATE_MOVEABLE pages in the pcp list, it causes unnecessary
> migration action when these pages reused by CMA.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mingjun Zhang <troy.zhangmingjun@...aro.org>
> ---
>   mm/page_alloc.c |    3 ++-
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 0ee638f..84b9d84 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -1362,7 +1362,8 @@ void free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, int cold)
>   	 * excessively into the page allocator
>   	 */
>   	if (migratetype >= MIGRATE_PCPTYPES) {
> -		if (unlikely(is_migrate_isolate(migratetype))) {
> +		if (unlikely(is_migrate_isolate(migratetype))
> +			|| is_migrate_cma(migratetype))
>   			free_one_page(zone, page, 0, migratetype);
>   			goto out;
>   		}
>


I submitted something very similar a while ago 
http://marc.info/?l=linaro-mm-sig&m=137645764208287&w=2 . Has the 
opinion on this patch changed?

Thanks,
Laura

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