From: Christoph Lameter Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:31:53 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] zone reclaim with slab: avoid unecessary off node allocations X-Git-Tag: v2.6.19-rc1~1161 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=83e33a4711760469f5c3861b8ffea4947656d4eb;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git [PATCH] zone reclaim with slab: avoid unecessary off node allocations Minor performance fix. If we reclaimed enough slab pages from a zone then we can avoid going off node with the current allocation. Take care of updating nr_reclaimed when reclaiming from the slab. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 089e943c4d3..b950f193816 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1566,6 +1566,7 @@ static int __zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order) .gfp_mask = gfp_mask, .swappiness = vm_swappiness, }; + unsigned long slab_reclaimable; disable_swap_token(); cond_resched(); @@ -1592,7 +1593,8 @@ static int __zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order) } while (priority >= 0 && nr_reclaimed < nr_pages); } - if (zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE) > zone->min_slab_pages) { + slab_reclaimable = zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE); + if (slab_reclaimable > zone->min_slab_pages) { /* * shrink_slab() does not currently allow us to determine how * many pages were freed in this zone. So we take the current @@ -1603,12 +1605,17 @@ static int __zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order) * Note that shrink_slab will free memory on all zones and may * take a long time. */ - unsigned long limit = zone_page_state(zone, - NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE) - nr_pages; - while (shrink_slab(sc.nr_scanned, gfp_mask, order) && - zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE) > limit) + zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE) > + slab_reclaimable - nr_pages) ; + + /* + * Update nr_reclaimed by the number of slab pages we + * reclaimed from this zone. + */ + nr_reclaimed += slab_reclaimable - + zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE); } p->reclaim_state = NULL;