Re: [PATCH 2/6] mm/page_alloc: Track range of active PCP lists during bulk free

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 2/17/22 01:22, Mel Gorman wrote:
> free_pcppages_bulk() frees pages in a round-robin fashion. Originally,
> this was dealing only with migratetypes but storing high-order pages
> means that there can be many more empty lists that are uselessly
> checked. Track the minimum and maximum active pindex to reduce the
> search space.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 08de32cfd9bb..85cc1fe8bcc5 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -1450,6 +1450,8 @@ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zone *zone, int count,
>  					struct per_cpu_pages *pcp)
>  {
>  	int pindex = 0;
> +	int min_pindex = 0;
> +	int max_pindex = NR_PCP_LISTS - 1;
>  	int batch_free = 0;
>  	int nr_freed = 0;
>  	unsigned int order;
> @@ -1475,13 +1477,20 @@ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zone *zone, int count,
>  		 */
>  		do {
>  			batch_free++;
> -			if (++pindex == NR_PCP_LISTS)
> -				pindex = 0;
> +			if (++pindex > max_pindex)
> +				pindex = min_pindex;
>  			list = &pcp->lists[pindex];
> -		} while (list_empty(list));
> +			if (!list_empty(list))
> +				break;
> +
> +			if (pindex == max_pindex)
> +				max_pindex--;
> +			if (pindex == min_pindex)
> +				min_pindex++;
> +		} while (1);
>  
>  		/* This is the only non-empty list. Free them all. */
> -		if (batch_free == NR_PCP_LISTS)
> +		if (batch_free >= max_pindex - min_pindex)
>  			batch_free = count;
>  
>  		order = pindex_to_order(pindex);