[PATCH 30/34] mm: page_alloc: cache the last node whose dirty limit is reached

From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Subject: [PATCH 30/34] mm: page_alloc: cache the last node whose dirty limit is reached
Date: Fri,  8 Jul 2016 10:35:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1467970510-21195-31-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1467970510-21195-1-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net>

If a page is about to be dirtied then the page allocator attempts to limit
the total number of dirty pages that exists in any given zone.  The call
to node_dirty_ok is expensive so this patch records if the last pgdat
examined hit the dirty limits.  In some cases, this reduces the number of
calls to node_dirty_ok().

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 565f08832853..958424fc64be 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2891,6 +2891,8 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, int alloc_flags,
 {
 	struct zoneref *z = ac->preferred_zoneref;
 	struct zone *zone;
+	struct pglist_data *last_pgdat_dirty_limit = NULL;
+
 	/*
 	 * Scan zonelist, looking for a zone with enough free.
 	 * See also __cpuset_node_allowed() comment in kernel/cpuset.c.
@@ -2923,8 +2925,15 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, int alloc_flags,
 		 * will require awareness of nodes in the
 		 * dirty-throttling and the flusher threads.
 		 */
-		if (ac->spread_dirty_pages && !node_dirty_ok(zone->zone_pgdat))
-			continue;
+		if (ac->spread_dirty_pages) {
+			if (last_pgdat_dirty_limit == zone->zone_pgdat)
+				continue;
+
+			if (!node_dirty_ok(zone->zone_pgdat)) {
+				last_pgdat_dirty_limit = zone->zone_pgdat;
+				continue;
+			}
+		}
 
 		mark = zone->watermark[alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_MASK];
 		if (!zone_watermark_fast(zone, order, mark,
-- 
2.6.4

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