Re: [patch v2 3/3] mm: page_alloc: fair zone allocator policy

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Fri Aug 09 2013 - 14:46:33 EST


On 08/08/2013 12:16 AM, Johannes Weiner wrote:

Patch on top of mmotm:

Yes, please!

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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [patch] mm: page_alloc: use vmstats for fair zone allocation batching

Avoid dirtying the same cache line with every single page allocation
by making the fair per-zone allocation batch a vmstat item, which will
turn it into batched percpu counters on SMP.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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