From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753059AbeBZNwt (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Feb 2018 08:52:49 -0500 Received: from mga04.intel.com ([192.55.52.120]:54609 "EHLO mga04.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752771AbeBZNws (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Feb 2018 08:52:48 -0500 X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.47,396,1515484800"; d="scan'208";a="29836352" From: Aaron Lu To: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andrew Morton , Huang Ying , Dave Hansen , Kemi Wang , Tim Chen , Andi Kleen , Michal Hocko , Vlastimil Babka , Mel Gorman , Matthew Wilcox Subject: [PATCH v3 0/3] mm: improve zone->lock scalability Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 21:53:43 +0800 Message-Id: <20180226135346.7208-1-aaron.lu@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.14.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patch 1/3 is a small cleanup suggested by Matthew Wilcox which doesn't affect scalability or performance; Patch 2/3 moves some code in free_pcppages_bulk() outside of zone->lock and has Mel Gorman's ack; Patch 3/3 uses prefetch in free_pcppages_bulk() outside of zone->lock to speedup page merging under zone->lock but Mel Gorman has some concerns. For details, please see their changelogs. Changes from v2: Patch 1/3 is newly added; Patch 2/3 is patch 1/2 in v2 and doesn't have any change except resolving conflicts due to the newly added patch 1/3; Patch 3/3 is patch 2/2 in v2 and only has some changelog updates on concerns part. v1 and v2 was here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/23/879 Aaron Lu (3): mm/free_pcppages_bulk: update pcp->count inside mm/free_pcppages_bulk: do not hold lock when picking pages to free mm/free_pcppages_bulk: prefetch buddy while not holding lock mm/page_alloc.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) -- 2.14.3