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mm: page_alloc: exclude unreclaimable allocations from zone fairness policy
authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Thu, 19 Dec 2013 01:08:47 +0000 (17:08 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 19 Dec 2013 03:04:51 +0000 (19:04 -0800)
commit722171bb2181c52feb14b4100b4a940d06579ac7
tree4cd2132b22b48308bf3676f80fdce1f7691de06b
parent51bdf067bac6f9f8b2db7b8007bd2ee592962ece
mm: page_alloc: exclude unreclaimable allocations from zone fairness policy

Dave Hansen noted a regression in a microbenchmark that loops around
open() and close() on an 8-node NUMA machine and bisected it down to
commit 0e5100205566 ("mm: page_alloc: fair zone allocator policy").
That change forces the slab allocations of the file descriptor to spread
out to all 8 nodes, causing remote references in the page allocator and
slab.

The round-robin policy is only there to provide fairness among memory
allocations that are reclaimed involuntarily based on pressure in each
zone.  It does not make sense to apply it to unreclaimable kernel
allocations that are freed manually, in this case instantly after the
allocation, and incur the remote reference costs twice for no reason.

Only round-robin allocations that are usually freed through page reclaim
or slab shrinking.

Bisected by Dave Hansen.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c