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charset="UTF-8" Demoting cold folios to slower memory tiers using standard stores pollutes CPU caches and incurs memory latency and bandwidth overhead. Update demote_folio_list() to use MIGRATE_ASYNC_NONTEMPORAL, avoiding CPU cache allocation and improving demotion throughput. Suggested-by: Alirad Malek Suggested-by: Dimitrios Palyvos-Giannas Signed-off-by: Huan Nguyen --- mm/vmscan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 9959ca158ce8..b44b7cdf8a03 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1134,7 +1134,7 @@ static unsigned int demote_folio_list(struct list_head *demote_folios, /* Demotion ignores all cpuset and mempolicy settings */ migrate_pages(demote_folios, alloc_demote_folio, NULL, - (unsigned long)&mtc, MIGRATE_ASYNC, MR_DEMOTION, + (unsigned long)&mtc, MIGRATE_ASYNC_NONTEMPORAL, MR_DEMOTION, &nr_succeeded); return nr_succeeded; -- 2.56.0.398.g882cbad275-goog