linux/mm
Lee Schermerhorn fc36b8d3d8 mempolicy: use MPOL_F_LOCAL to Indicate Preferred Local Policy
Now that we're using "preferred local" policy for system default, we need to
make this as fast as possible.  Because of the variable size of the mempolicy
structure [based on size of nodemasks], the preferred_node may be in a
different cacheline from the mode.  This can result in accessing an extra
cacheline in the normal case of system default policy.  Suspect this is the
cause of an observed 2-3% slowdown in page fault testing relative to kernel
without this patch series.

To alleviate this, use an internal mode flag, MPOL_F_LOCAL in the mempolicy
flags member which is guaranteed [?] to be in the same cacheline as the mode
itself.

Verified that reworked mempolicy now performs slightly better on 25-rc8-mm1
for both anon and shmem segments with system default and vma [preferred local]
policy.

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:24 -07:00
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allocpercpu.c cpumask: Cleanup more uses of CPU_MASK and NODE_MASK 2008-04-19 19:44:58 +02:00
backing-dev.c mm/backing-dev.c: fix percpu_counter_destroy call bug in bdi_init 2007-12-05 09:21:18 -08:00
bootmem.c mm: allow reserve_bootmem() cross nodes 2008-04-26 22:51:08 +02:00
bounce.c block: Initial support for data-less (or empty) barrier support 2007-10-16 11:03:56 +02:00
dmapool.c dmapool: enable debugging for CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON too 2008-04-28 08:58:20 -07:00
fadvise.c xip: support non-struct page backed memory 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
filemap_xip.c xip: support non-struct page backed memory 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
filemap.c mm: rotate_reclaimable_page() cleanup 2008-04-28 08:58:20 -07:00
fremap.c mm: fix various kernel-doc comments 2008-03-19 18:53:35 -07:00
highmem.c mm: highmem kernel-doc additions 2008-03-19 18:53:35 -07:00
hugetlb.c mempolicy: rework mempolicy Reference Counting [yet again] 2008-04-28 08:58:24 -07:00
internal.h Solve section mismatch for free_area_init_core. 2008-02-23 17:13:24 -08:00
Kconfig PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED and separate page flags for Head and Tail 2008-04-28 08:58:22 -07:00
maccess.c kgdb: fix optional arch functions and probe_kernel_* 2008-04-17 20:05:39 +02:00
madvise.c xip: support non-struct page backed memory 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
Makefile uaccess: add probe_kernel_write() 2008-04-17 20:05:36 +02:00
memcontrol.c memcg: fix node_state handling 2008-04-08 18:25:53 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c hotplug-memory: make online_page() common 2008-04-28 08:58:17 -07:00
memory.c mm: add vm_insert_mixed 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
mempolicy.c mempolicy: use MPOL_F_LOCAL to Indicate Preferred Local Policy 2008-04-28 08:58:24 -07:00
mempool.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
migrate.c memcg: fix VM_BUG_ON from page migration 2008-03-04 16:35:14 -08:00
mincore.c mm: remove nopage 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
mlock.c do not limit locked memory when RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is RLIM_INFINITY 2007-07-16 09:05:37 -07:00
mmap.c mempolicy: rename mpol_copy to mpol_dup 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
mmzone.c mm: filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask 2008-04-28 08:58:19 -07:00
mprotect.c fix mprotect vma_wants_writenotify prot 2007-10-23 08:32:06 -07:00
mremap.c sparse pointer use of zero as null 2007-10-18 14:37:31 -07:00
msync.c Detach sched.h from mm.h 2007-05-21 09:18:19 -07:00
nommu.c nommu: add new vmalloc_user() and remap_vmalloc_range() interfaces. 2008-02-05 09:44:21 -08:00
oom_kill.c mm: have zonelist contains structs with both a zone pointer and zone_idx 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
page_alloc.c pageflags: eliminate PG_xxx aliases 2008-04-28 08:58:22 -07:00
page_io.c mm: fix PageUptodate data race 2008-02-05 09:44:19 -08:00
page_isolation.c memory hotremove: unset migrate type "ISOLATE" after removal 2007-11-14 18:45:38 -08:00
page-writeback.c writeback: speed up writeback of big dirty files 2008-02-05 09:44:19 -08:00
pagewalk.c mm: fix possible off-by-one in walk_pte_range() 2008-04-28 08:58:16 -07:00
pdflush.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/juhl/trivial 2008-04-21 16:36:46 -07:00
prio_tree.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
quicklist.c quicklists: Only consider memory that can be used with GFP_KERNEL 2008-01-14 08:52:22 -08:00
readahead.c mm/readahead: fix kernel-doc notation 2008-03-19 18:53:37 -07:00
rmap.c mm: remove nopage 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
shmem_acl.c [PATCH] Fix typos in mm/shmem_acl.c 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
shmem.c mempolicy: rework mempolicy Reference Counting [yet again] 2008-04-28 08:58:24 -07:00
slab.c mm: move cache_line_size() to <linux/cache.h> 2008-04-28 08:58:19 -07:00
slob.c slob: reduce external fragmentation by using three free lists 2008-02-05 09:44:19 -08:00
slub.c mm: move cache_line_size() to <linux/cache.h> 2008-04-28 08:58:19 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c NULL noise: fs/*, mm/*, kernel/* 2008-03-30 14:18:41 -07:00
sparse.c hotplug memory remove: generic __remove_pages() support 2008-04-28 08:58:17 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: fix various kernel-doc comments 2008-03-19 18:53:35 -07:00
swap.c mm: rotate_reclaimable_page() cleanup 2008-04-28 08:58:20 -07:00
swapfile.c mm: try both endianess when checking for endianess 2008-04-28 08:58:19 -07:00
thrash.c Bug in mm/thrash.c function grab_swap_token() 2007-05-11 08:29:32 -07:00
tiny-shmem.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2008-03-25 08:57:47 -07:00
truncate.c fix invalidate_inode_pages2_range() to not clear ret 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
util.c fix mm/util.c:krealloc() 2007-11-14 18:45:41 -08:00
vmalloc.c vmallocinfo: add caller information 2008-04-28 08:58:21 -07:00
vmscan.c mm: have zonelist contains structs with both a zone pointer and zone_idx 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
vmstat.c Subject: [PATCH] hugetlb: vmstat events for huge page allocations 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00