From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:44:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: exempt pcp alloc from watermarks In-Reply-To: <45100028.90109@yahoo.com.au> Message-ID: References: <20060914220011.2be9100a.akpm@osdl.org> <20060914234926.9b58fd77.pj@sgi.com> <20060915002325.bffe27d1.akpm@osdl.org> <20060915012810.81d9b0e3.akpm@osdl.org> <20060915203816.fd260a0b.pj@sgi.com> <20060915214822.1c15c2cb.akpm@osdl.org> <20060916043036.72d47c90.pj@sgi.com> <20060916081846.e77c0f89.akpm@osdl.org> <20060917022834.9d56468a.pj@sgi.com> <450D1A94.7020100@yahoo.com.au> <20060917041525.4ddbd6fa.pj@sgi.com> <450D434B.4080702@yahoo.com.au> <20060917061922.45695dcb.pj@sgi.com> <450D5310.50004@yahoo.com.au> <1158583495.23551.53.camel@twins> <45100028.90109@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Paul Jackson , akpm@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, rientjes@google.com, ak@suse.de List-ID: Could we simply try to get a page from the pcp of the best zone before doing any other processing? That way we may actually improve the performance of alloc pages. Could we inline the attempt to get a page from the pcp? -- 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