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mm/page_alloc: convert zone_pcp_update() to rely on memory barriers instead of stop_m...
authorCody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:33 +0000 (15:01 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 3 Jul 2013 23:07:27 +0000 (16:07 -0700)
commit0a647f3811d6af56405a819341ceac23e31d4572
treeba96d8341d2de9379d5acbb799cb6da6b5a16b41
parent998d39cb236fe464af86a3492a24d2f67ee1efc2
mm/page_alloc: convert zone_pcp_update() to rely on memory barriers instead of stop_machine()

zone_pcp_update()'s goal is to adjust the ->high and ->mark members of a
percpu pageset based on a zone's ->managed_pages.  We don't need to drain
the entire percpu pageset just to modify these fields.

This lets us avoid calling setup_pageset() (and the draining required to
call it) and instead allows simply setting the fields' values (with some
attention paid to memory barriers to prevent the relationship between
->batch and ->high from being thrown off).

This does change the behavior of zone_pcp_update() as the percpu pagesets
will not be drained when zone_pcp_update() is called (they will end up
being shrunk, not completely drained, later when a 0-order page is freed
in free_hot_cold_page()).

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c