From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, riel@redhat.com,
kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ming.m.lin@intel.com,
yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/20] Get rid of the concept of hot/cold page freeing
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 13:53:47 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0903031350020.18013@qirst.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090303135254.GE10577@csn.ul.ie>
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > And only if the page allocator gets fast enough to be usable for
> > allocs instead of quicklists.
> It appears the x86 doesn't even use the quicklists. I know patches for
> i386 support used to exist, what happened with them?
The x86 patches were not applied because of an issue with early NUMA
freeing. The problem has been fixed but the x86 patches were left
unmerged. There was also an issue with the quicklists growing too large.
> That aside, I think we could win slightly by just knowing when a page is
> zeroed and being freed back to the allocator such as when the quicklists
> are being drained. I wrote a patch along those lines but it started
> getting really messy on x86 so I'm postponing it for the moment.
quicklist tied into the tlb freeing logic. The tlb freeing logic could
itself keep a list of zeroed pages which may be cleaner.
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Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-22 23:17 [RFC PATCH 00/20] Cleanup and optimise the page allocator Mel Gorman
2009-02-22 23:17 ` [PATCH 01/20] Replace __alloc_pages_internal() with __alloc_pages_nodemask() Mel Gorman
2009-02-22 23:17 ` [PATCH 02/20] Do not sanity check order in the fast path Mel Gorman
2009-02-22 23:17 ` [PATCH 03/20] Do not check NUMA node ID when the caller knows the node is valid Mel Gorman
2009-02-23 15:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-23 16:24 ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-22 23:17 ` [PATCH 04/20] Convert gfp_zone() to use a table of precalculated values Mel Gorman
2009-02-23 11:55 ` [PATCH] mm: clean up __GFP_* flags a bit Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-23 18:01 ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-23 20:27 ` Vegard Nossum
2009-02-23 15:23 ` [PATCH 04/20] Convert gfp_zone() to use a table of precalculated values Christoph Lameter
2009-02-23 15:41 ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-23 15:43 ` [PATCH 04/20] Convert gfp_zone() to use a table of precalculated value Christoph Lameter
2009-02-23 16:40 ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-23 17:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-24 1:32 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-02-24 3:59 ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-24 5:20 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-02-24 11:36 ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-23 16:33 ` [PATCH 04/20] Convert gfp_zone() to use a table of precalculated values Mel Gorman
2009-02-23 16:33 ` [PATCH 04/20] Convert gfp_zone() to use a table of precalculated value Christoph Lameter
2009-02-23 17:41 ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-22 23:17 ` [PATCH 05/20] Check only once if the zonelist is suitable for the allocation Mel Gorman
2009-02-22 23:17 ` [PATCH 06/20] Break up the allocator entry point into fast and slow paths Mel Gorman
2009-02-22 23:17 ` [PATCH 07/20] Simplify the check on whether cpusets are a factor or not Mel Gorman
2009-02-23 7:14 ` Pekka J Enberg
2009-02-23 9:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-23 9:13 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-23 11:39 ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-23 13:19 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-23 9:14 ` Li Zefan
2009-02-22 23:17 ` [PATCH 08/20] Move check for disabled anti-fragmentation out of fastpath Mel Gorman
2009-02-22 23:17 ` [PATCH 09/20] Calculate the preferred zone for allocation only once Mel Gorman
2009-02-22 23:17 ` [PATCH 10/20] Calculate the migratetype " Mel Gorman
2009-02-22 23:17 ` [PATCH 11/20] Inline get_page_from_freelist() in the fast-path Mel Gorman
2009-02-23 7:21 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-23 11:42 ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-23 15:32 ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-24 13:32 ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-24 14:08 ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-24 15:03 ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-22 23:17 ` [PATCH 12/20] Inline __rmqueue_smallest() Mel Gorman
2009-02-22 23:17 ` [PATCH 13/20] Inline buffered_rmqueue() Mel Gorman
2009-02-23 7:24 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-23 11:44 ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-22 23:17 ` [PATCH 14/20] Do not call get_pageblock_migratetype() more than necessary Mel Gorman
2009-02-22 23:17 ` [PATCH 15/20] Do not disable interrupts in free_page_mlock() Mel Gorman
2009-02-23 9:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-23 12:23 ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-23 12:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-23 14:25 ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-22 23:17 ` [PATCH 16/20] Do not setup zonelist cache when there is only one node Mel Gorman
2009-02-22 23:17 ` [PATCH 17/20] Do not double sanity check page attributes during allocation Mel Gorman
2009-02-22 23:17 ` [PATCH 18/20] Split per-cpu list into one-list-per-migrate-type Mel Gorman
2009-02-22 23:17 ` [PATCH 19/20] Batch free pages from migratetype per-cpu lists Mel Gorman
2009-02-22 23:17 ` [PATCH 20/20] Get rid of the concept of hot/cold page freeing Mel Gorman
2009-02-23 9:37 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-23 23:30 ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-23 23:53 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-24 11:51 ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-25 0:01 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-25 16:01 ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-25 16:19 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-26 16:37 ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-26 17:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-26 17:15 ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-26 17:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-27 11:33 ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-27 15:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-03-03 13:52 ` Mel Gorman
2009-03-03 18:53 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2009-02-27 11:38 ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-01 10:37 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-02-25 18:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-22 23:57 ` [RFC PATCH 00/20] Cleanup and optimise the page allocator Andi Kleen
2009-02-23 12:34 ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-23 15:34 ` [RFC PATCH 00/20] Cleanup and optimise the page allocato Christoph Lameter
2009-02-23 0:02 ` [RFC PATCH 00/20] Cleanup and optimise the page allocator Andi Kleen
2009-02-23 14:32 ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-23 17:49 ` Andi Kleen
2009-02-24 14:32 ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-23 7:29 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-23 8:34 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-02-23 9:10 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-02-23 11:55 ` [PATCH] mm: gfp_to_alloc_flags() Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-23 14:00 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-23 18:17 ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-23 20:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-23 22:59 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-24 8:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-23 14:38 ` [RFC PATCH 00/20] Cleanup and optimise the page allocator Christoph Lameter
2009-02-23 14:46 ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-23 15:00 ` Mel Gorman
2009-02-23 15:22 ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-23 20:26 ` Mel Gorman
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