linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.14 52/77] mm: page_alloc: only check the alloc flags and gfp

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Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2015 17:27:30 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.14 52/77] mm: page_alloc: only check the alloc flags and gfp_mask for dirty once

3.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>

commit a6e21b14f22041382e832d30deda6f26f37b1097 upstream.

Currently it's calculated once per zone in the zonelist.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/page_alloc.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1940,6 +1940,8 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, n
 	nodemask_t *allowednodes = NULL;/* zonelist_cache approximation */
 	int zlc_active = 0;		/* set if using zonelist_cache */
 	int did_zlc_setup = 0;		/* just call zlc_setup() one time */
+	bool consider_zone_dirty = (alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_LOW) &&
+				(gfp_mask & __GFP_WRITE);
 
 zonelist_scan:
 	/*
@@ -1998,8 +2000,7 @@ zonelist_scan:
 		 * will require awareness of zones in the
 		 * dirty-throttling and the flusher threads.
 		 */
-		if ((alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_LOW) &&
-		    (gfp_mask & __GFP_WRITE) && !zone_dirty_ok(zone))
+		if (consider_zone_dirty && !zone_dirty_ok(zone))
 			continue;
 
 		mark = zone->watermark[alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_MASK];


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