On Tue, Sep 11 2012, Minchan Kim wrote: > This patch drops clean cache pages instead of migration during > alloc_contig_range() to minimise allocation latency by reducing the amount > of migration is necessary. It's useful for CMA because latency of migration > is more important than evicting the background processes working set. > In addition, as pages are reclaimed then fewer free pages for migration > targets are required so it avoids memory reclaiming to get free pages, > which is a contributory factor to increased latency. > > * from v1 > * drop migrate_mode_t > * add reclaim_clean_pages_from_list instad of MIGRATE_DISCARD support - Mel > > I measured elapsed time of __alloc_contig_migrate_range which migrates > 10M in 40M movable zone in QEMU machine. > > Before - 146ms, After - 7ms > > Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprow...@samsung.com> > Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <min...@mina86.com>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <min...@mina86.com> Thanks! -- Best regards, _ _ .o. | Liege of Serenely Enlightened Majesty of o' \,=./ `o ..o | Computer Science, Michał “mina86” Nazarewicz (o o) ooo +----<email/xmpp: m...@google.com>--------------ooO--(_)--Ooo--
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