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Subject[PATCH 22/24] mm, page_alloc: Check once if a zone has isolated pageblocks
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When bulk freeing pages from the per-cpu lists the zone is checked
for isolated pageblocks on every release. This patch checks it once
per drain. Technically this is race-prone but so is the existing
code.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 3fd8489b3055..854925c99c23 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -857,6 +857,7 @@ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zone *zone, int count,
int batch_free = 0;
int to_free = count;
unsigned long nr_scanned;
+ bool isolated_pageblocks = has_isolate_pageblock(zone);

spin_lock(&zone->lock);
nr_scanned = zone_page_state(zone, NR_PAGES_SCANNED);
@@ -896,7 +897,7 @@ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zone *zone, int count,
/* MIGRATE_ISOLATE page should not go to pcplists */
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(is_migrate_isolate(mt), page);
/* Pageblock could have been isolated meanwhile */
- if (unlikely(has_isolate_pageblock(zone)))
+ if (unlikely(isolated_pageblocks))
mt = get_pageblock_migratetype(page);

__free_one_page(page, page_to_pfn(page), zone, 0, mt);
--
2.6.4
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