mm: numa: Do not migrate or account for hinting faults on the zero page
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:28:50 +0000 (11:28 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 9 Oct 2013 10:39:50 +0000 (12:39 +0200)
commita1a46184e34cfd0764f06a54870defa052b0a094
treeb4d12f1d23963fb3de14cf8d81f7979c4f58d95a
parentf123d74abf91574837d14e5ea58f6a779a387bf5
mm: numa: Do not migrate or account for hinting faults on the zero page

The zero page is not replicated between nodes and is often shared between
processes. The data is read-only and likely to be cached in local CPUs
if heavily accessed meaning that the remote memory access cost is less
of a concern. This patch prevents trapping faults on the zero pages. For
tasks using the zero page this will reduce the number of PTE updates,
TLB flushes and hinting faults.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ Correct use of is_huge_zero_page]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-13-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
mm/huge_memory.c
mm/memory.c