From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ee0-f42.google.com (mail-ee0-f42.google.com [74.125.83.42]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC46F6B0036 for ; Thu, 1 May 2014 09:25:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-ee0-f42.google.com with SMTP id d17so2240812eek.15 for ; Thu, 01 May 2014 06:25:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zene.cmpxchg.org (zene.cmpxchg.org. [2a01:238:4224:fa00:ca1f:9ef3:caee:a2bd]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g47si34176011eet.144.2014.05.01.06.25.24 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 01 May 2014 06:25:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 09:25:20 -0400 From: Johannes Weiner Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/17] mm: page_alloc: Do not update zlc unless the zlc is active Message-ID: <20140501132520.GC23420@cmpxchg.org> References: <1398933888-4940-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> <1398933888-4940-2-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1398933888-4940-2-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Linux-MM , Linux-FSDevel , Vlastimil Babka , Jan Kara , Michal Hocko , Hugh Dickins , Linux Kernel On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 09:44:32AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > The zlc is used on NUMA machines to quickly skip over zones that are full. > However it is always updated, even for the first zone scanned when the > zlc might not even be active. As it's a write to a bitmap that potentially > bounces cache line it's deceptively expensive and most machines will not > care. Only update the zlc if it was active. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Johannes Weiner -- 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