tree ed55a3c32b95fd1d8cf9194fd8722eb61a6dd719
parent 4fcb0971175f6037590d7b7772fe6619261d2165
author Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> 1463703244 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1463710334 -0700

mm, page_alloc: reduce cost of fair zone allocation policy retry

The fair zone allocation policy is not without cost but it can be
reduced slightly.  This patch removes an unnecessary local variable,
checks the likely conditions of the fair zone policy first, uses a bool
instead of a flags check and falls through when a remote node is
encountered instead of doing a full restart.  The benefit is marginal
but it's there

                                             4.6.0-rc2                  4.6.0-rc2
                                         decstat-v1r20              optfair-v1r20
  Min      alloc-odr0-1               377.00 (  0.00%)           380.00 ( -0.80%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-2               273.00 (  0.00%)           273.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-4               226.00 (  0.00%)           227.00 ( -0.44%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-8               196.00 (  0.00%)           196.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-16              183.00 (  0.00%)           183.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-32              175.00 (  0.00%)           173.00 (  1.14%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-64              172.00 (  0.00%)           169.00 (  1.74%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-128             170.00 (  0.00%)           169.00 (  0.59%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-256             183.00 (  0.00%)           180.00 (  1.64%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-512             191.00 (  0.00%)           190.00 (  0.52%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-1024            199.00 (  0.00%)           198.00 (  0.50%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-2048            204.00 (  0.00%)           204.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-4096            210.00 (  0.00%)           209.00 (  0.48%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-8192            213.00 (  0.00%)           213.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-16384           214.00 (  0.00%)           214.00 (  0.00%)

The benefit is marginal at best but one of the most important benefits,
avoiding a second search when falling back to another node is not
triggered by this particular test so the benefit for some corner cases
is understated.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>