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SubjectRe: [PATCH 03/10] mm, page_alloc: Remove unnecessary recalculations for dirty zone balancing
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 02:45:27PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 12-08-15 11:45:28, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > File-backed pages that will be immediately are balanced between zones but
> ^written to...
>
> > it's unnecessarily expensive.
>
> to do WHAT? I guess you meant checking gfp_mask resp. alloc_mask? I
> doubt it would make a noticeable difference as this is a slow path
> already but I agree it doesn't make sense to check it again.
>

File-backed pages that will be immediately written are balanced between
zones. This heuristic tries to avoid having a single zone filled with
recently dirtied pages but the checks are unnecessarily expensive. Move
consider_zone_balanced into the alloc_context instead of checking bitmaps
multiple times. The patch also gives the parameter a more meaningful name.

?

--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs


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