Re: [PATCH] mm: gfp_to_alloc_flags()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 14:59 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:55:03 +0100
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > +static int gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_t gfp_mask)
> > +{
> > +	struct task_struct *p = current;
> > +	int alloc_flags = ALLOC_WMARK_MIN | ALLOC_CPUSET;
> > +	const gfp_t wait = gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT;
> > +
> > +	/*
> > +	 * The caller may dip into page reserves a bit more if the caller
> > +	 * cannot run direct reclaim, or if the caller has realtime scheduling
> > +	 * policy or is asking for __GFP_HIGH memory.  GFP_ATOMIC requests will
> > +	 * set both ALLOC_HARDER (!wait) and ALLOC_HIGH (__GFP_HIGH).
> > +	 */
> > +	if (gfp_mask & __GFP_HIGH)
> > +		alloc_flags |= ALLOC_HIGH;
> 
> This could be sped up by making ALLOC_HIGH==__GFP_HIGH (hack)

:-) 

> But really, the whole function can be elided on the fastpath.  Try the
> allocation with the current flags (and __GFP_NOWARN) and only if it
> failed will we try altering the flags to try harder?

It is slowpath only.

After Mel's patches the fast path looks like so:

        page = __get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask|__GFP_HARDWALL, nodemask, order,
                        zonelist, high_zoneidx, ALLOC_WMARK_LOW|ALLOC_CPUSET,
                        preferred_zone, migratetype);
        if (unlikely(!page))
                page = __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_mask, order,
                                zonelist, high_zoneidx, nodemask,
                                preferred_zone, migratetype);


and gfp_to_alloc_flags() is only used in __alloc_pages_slowpath().
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