PATCH: Change in __alloc_pages

PATCH: Change in __alloc_pages

[Juan J. Quintela]

Hi
        with this change in top of my previous patch (shrink_mmap take2)
I get the same performance on IO that the removing the page->zone test
from shrink_mmap.  Could people seing improvements in ac21 (or later)
test this patch.  

Comments and positive/negative reports are welcome.

Later, Juan.

This patch does:
- We allocate for a zone with more than pages_high free pages if
  possible.

diff -urN --exclude-from=/home/lfcia/quintela/work/kernel/exclude base/mm/page_alloc.c working/mm/page_alloc.c
--- base/mm/page_alloc.c	Mon Jun 19 23:35:41 2000
+++ working/mm/page_alloc.c	Tue Jun 20 03:03:51 2000
@@ -233,6 +233,23 @@
 	 * We are falling back to lower-level zones if allocation
 	 * in a higher zone fails.
 	 */
+
+	for (;;) {
+		zone_t *z = *(zone++);
+		if (!z)
+			break;
+		if (!z->size)
+			BUG();
+
+		/* If there are zones with a lot of free memory
allocate from them */
+		if (z->free_pages > z->pages_high) {
+			struct page *page = rmqueue(z, order);
+			if (page)
+				return page;
+		}
+	}
+
+	zone = zonelist->zones;
 	for (;;) {
 		zone_t *z = *(zone++);
 		if (!z)


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