From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:36:26 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] earlier allocation of order 0 pages from pcp in __alloc_pages Message-Id: <20050929153626.3ab4fce1.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050929150155.A15646@unix-os.sc.intel.com> References: <20050929150155.A15646@unix-os.sc.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Seth, Rohit" Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: "Seth, Rohit" wrote: > > [PATCH]: Try to service a order 0 page request in __alloc_pages from the pcp list before checking the aone_watermarks. > > Try to service a order 0 page request from pcp list. This will allow us to not check and possibly start the reclaim activity when there are free pages present on the pcp. This early allocation does not try to replenish an empty pcp. (Please avoid the 240-column emails!) Why is this a desirable change to make? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org