On 07/20/2015 10:00 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
From: Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de>

File-backed pages that will be immediately dirtied are balanced between
zones but it's unnecessarily expensive. Move consider_zone_balanced into
the alloc_context instead of checking bitmaps multiple times.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz>

Agreed with new ac->spread_dirty_page name (or rather plural, spread_dirty_pages?) , and a nitpick below.

---
  mm/internal.h   | 1 +
  mm/page_alloc.c | 9 ++++++---
  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 36b23f1e2ca6..8977348fbeec 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ struct alloc_context {
        int classzone_idx;
        int migratetype;
        enum zone_type high_zoneidx;
+       bool consider_zone_dirty;
  };

  /*
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 4b35b196aeda..7c2dc022f4ba 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2295,8 +2295,6 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int 
order, int alloc_flags,
        struct zoneref *z;
        struct page *page = NULL;
        struct zone *zone;
-       bool consider_zone_dirty = (alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_LOW) &&
-                               (gfp_mask & __GFP_WRITE);
        int nr_fair_skipped = 0;
        bool zonelist_rescan;

@@ -2355,7 +2353,7 @@ zonelist_scan:

I've been recently suggested by mhocko to add to ~/.gitconfig

[diff "default"]
        xfuncname = "^[[:alpha:]$_].*[^:]$"

So that git produces function names in hunk context instead of labels. I gladly spread this arcane knowledge :)

                 * will require awareness of zones in the
                 * dirty-throttling and the flusher threads.
                 */

This comment (in the part not shown) mentions ALLOC_WMARK_LOW as the mechanism to distinguish fastpath from slowpath. This is no longer true, so update it too?

-               if (consider_zone_dirty && !zone_dirty_ok(zone))
+               if (ac->consider_zone_dirty && !zone_dirty_ok(zone))
                        continue;

                mark = zone->watermark[alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_MASK];
@@ -2995,6 +2993,10 @@ retry_cpuset:

        /* We set it here, as __alloc_pages_slowpath might have changed it */
        ac.zonelist = zonelist;
+
+       /* Dirty zone balancing only done in the fast path */
+       ac.consider_zone_dirty = (gfp_mask & __GFP_WRITE);
+
        /* The preferred zone is used for statistics later */
        preferred_zoneref = first_zones_zonelist(ac.zonelist, ac.high_zoneidx,
                                ac.nodemask, &ac.preferred_zone);
@@ -3012,6 +3014,7 @@ retry_cpuset:
                 * complete.
                 */
                alloc_mask = memalloc_noio_flags(gfp_mask);
+               ac.consider_zone_dirty = false;

                page = __alloc_pages_slowpath(alloc_mask, order, &ac);
        }


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