linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/25] Check in advance if the zonelist needs additional filtering

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Date:	Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:49:57 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>,
	Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/25] Check in advance if the zonelist needs
	additional filtering

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:21:12AM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Mel,
> 
> On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 23:19 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > Zonelist are filtered based on nodemasks for memory policies normally.
> > It can be additionally filters on cpusets if they exist as well as
> > noting when zones are full. These simple checks are expensive enough to
> > be noticed in profiles. This patch checks in advance if zonelist
> > filtering will ever be needed. If not, then the bulk of the checks are
> > skipped.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
> > @@ -1401,6 +1405,7 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask, unsigned int order,
> >  	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 */
> > +	int zonelist_filter = 0;
> >  
> >  	(void)first_zones_zonelist(zonelist, high_zoneidx, nodemask,
> >  							&preferred_zone);
> > @@ -1411,6 +1416,10 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask, unsigned int order,
> >  
> >  	VM_BUG_ON(order >= MAX_ORDER);
> >  
> > +	/* Determine in advance if the zonelist needs filtering */
> > +	if ((alloc_flags & ALLOC_CPUSET) && unlikely(number_of_cpusets > 1))
> > +		zonelist_filter = 1;
> > +
> >  zonelist_scan:
> >  	/*
> >  	 * Scan zonelist, looking for a zone with enough free.
> > @@ -1418,12 +1427,16 @@ zonelist_scan:
> >  	 */
> >  	for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist,
> >  						high_zoneidx, nodemask) {
> > -		if (NUMA_BUILD && zlc_active &&
> > -			!zlc_zone_worth_trying(zonelist, z, allowednodes))
> > -				continue;
> > -		if ((alloc_flags & ALLOC_CPUSET) &&
> > -			!cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall(zone, gfp_mask))
> > -				goto try_next_zone;
> > +
> > +		/* Ignore the additional zonelist filter checks if possible */
> > +		if (zonelist_filter) {
> > +			if (NUMA_BUILD && zlc_active &&
> > +				!zlc_zone_worth_trying(zonelist, z, allowednodes))
> > +					continue;
> > +			if ((alloc_flags & ALLOC_CPUSET) &&
> 
> The above expression is always true here because of the earlier
> zonelists_filter check, no?
> 

Yeah, silly. I've dropped the patch altogether though because it was
avoiding zonelist filtering for the wrong reasons.

> > +				!cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall(zone, gfp_mask))
> > +					goto try_next_zone;
> > +		}
> >  
> >  		if (!(alloc_flags & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS)) {
> >  			unsigned long mark;
> 
> 

-- 
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab
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