mm: reduce the amount of work done when updating min_free_kbytes
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:07:14 +0000 (15:07 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 1 Aug 2012 19:26:55 +0000 (12:26 -0700)
commit71a07f4cf29615d30369760c022972d4875758b3
tree83ee43c8c7a6a6773b816316fd0e9e1b97d70eba
parent1126e70953638f9516b6a0b96385799c708815e4
mm: reduce the amount of work done when updating min_free_kbytes

commit 938929f14cb595f43cd1a4e63e22d36cab1e4a1f upstream.

Stable note: Fixes https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726210 .
        Large machines with 1TB or more of RAM take a long time to boot
        without this patch and may spew out soft lockup warnings.

When min_free_kbytes is updated, some pageblocks are marked
MIGRATE_RESERVE.  Ordinarily, this work is unnoticable as it happens early
in boot but on large machines with 1TB of memory, this has been reported
to delay boot times, probably due to the NUMA distances involved.

The bulk of the work is due to calling calling pageblock_is_reserved() an
unnecessary amount of times and accessing far more struct page metadata
than is necessary.  This patch significantly reduces the amount of work
done by setup_zone_migrate_reserve() improving boot times on 1TB machines.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c