From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:10:12 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: mm: page_alloc: only check the alloc flags and gfp_mask for dirty once
X-Git-Tag: v3.14.31~26
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e1ca6f43c34e234f4d156a04ac340c28bb41b7db;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git

mm: page_alloc: only check the alloc flags and gfp_mask for dirty once

commit a6e21b14f22041382e832d30deda6f26f37b1097 upstream.

Currently it's calculated once per zone in the zonelist.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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>
---

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 9278bc2b80e6d..c3f2a9b3333f6 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1940,6 +1940,8 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask, unsigned int order,
 	nodemask_t *allowednodes = NULL;/* zonelist_cache approximation */
 	int zlc_active = 0;		/* set if using zonelist_cache */
 	int did_zlc_setup = 0;		/* just call zlc_setup() one time */
+	bool consider_zone_dirty = (alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_LOW) &&
+				(gfp_mask & __GFP_WRITE);
 
 zonelist_scan:
 	/*
@@ -1998,8 +2000,7 @@ zonelist_scan:
 		 * will require awareness of zones in the
 		 * dirty-throttling and the flusher threads.
 		 */
-		if ((alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_LOW) &&
-		    (gfp_mask & __GFP_WRITE) && !zone_dirty_ok(zone))
+		if (consider_zone_dirty && !zone_dirty_ok(zone))
 			continue;
 
 		mark = zone->watermark[alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_MASK];