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hugetlb: decrease hugetlb_lock cycling in gather_surplus_huge_pages

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To reduce hugetlb_lock acquisitions and releases when freeing excess surplus
pages, scan the page list in two parts.  First, transfer the needed pages to
the hugetlb pool.  Then drop the lock and free the remaining pages back to the
buddy allocator.

In the common case there are zero excess pages and no lock operations are
required.

Thanks Mel Gorman for this improvement.

Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Adam Litke 2008-04-28 02:12:20 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 797df57490
commit 19fc3f0acd
1 changed files with 12 additions and 5 deletions
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mm/hugetlb.c
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@ -372,11 +372,19 @@ static int gather_surplus_pages(int delta)
resv_huge_pages += delta;
ret = 0;
free:
/* Free the needed pages to the hugetlb pool */
list_for_each_entry_safe(page, tmp, &surplus_list, lru) {
if ((--needed) < 0)
break;
list_del(&page->lru);
if ((--needed) >= 0)
enqueue_huge_page(page);
else {
enqueue_huge_page(page);
}
/* Free unnecessary surplus pages to the buddy allocator */
if (!list_empty(&surplus_list)) {
spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
list_for_each_entry_safe(page, tmp, &surplus_list, lru) {
list_del(&page->lru);
/*
* The page has a reference count of zero already, so
* call free_huge_page directly instead of using
@ -384,10 +392,9 @@ static int gather_surplus_pages(int delta)
* unlocked which is safe because free_huge_page takes
* hugetlb_lock before deciding how to free the page.
*/
spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
free_huge_page(page);
spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
}
spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
}
return ret;