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Re: [PATCH 00/21] Optimise page alloc/free fast paths

From Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 00/21] Optimise page alloc/free fast paths
Date 2016-04-11 10:30 +0200
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On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 09:13:23AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Another year, another round of page allocator optimisations focusing this
> time on the alloc and free fast paths. This should be of help to workloads
> that are allocator-intensive from kernel space where the cost of zeroing
> is not nceessraily incurred.
> 

Despite the numbering, there really is 21 patches. I dropped patch 22 last
night because the impact was negligible for a complex patch but didn't
refresh the numbering.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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[PATCH 00/21] Optimise page alloc/free fast paths Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-11 10:20 +0200
  [PATCH 08/22] mm, page_alloc: Convert alloc_flags to unsigned Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-11 10:20 +0200
  [PATCH 04/22] mm, page_alloc: Inline zone_statistics Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-11 10:20 +0200
  [PATCH 21/22] cpuset: use static key better and convert to new API Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-11 10:20 +0200
  [PATCH 11/22] mm, page_alloc: Remove unnecessary initialisation in get_page_from_freelist Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-11 10:20 +0200
  [PATCH 14/22] mm, page_alloc: Simplify last cpupid reset Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-11 10:20 +0200
  [PATCH 13/22] mm, page_alloc: Remove redundant check for empty zonelist Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-11 10:20 +0200
  [PATCH 09/22] mm, page_alloc: Convert nr_fair_skipped to bool Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-11 10:20 +0200
  [PATCH 15/22] mm, page_alloc: Move might_sleep_if check to the allocator slowpath Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-11 10:20 +0200
  [PATCH 20/22] mm, page_alloc: Check multiple page fields with a single branch Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-11 10:20 +0200
  [PATCH 12/22] mm, page_alloc: Remove unnecessary initialisation from __alloc_pages_nodemask() Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-11 10:20 +0200
  [PATCH 19/22] mm, page_alloc: Avoid looking up the first zone in a zonelist twice Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-11 10:20 +0200
  [PATCH 05/22] mm, page_alloc: Inline the fast path of the zonelist iterator Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-11 10:20 +0200
  [PATCH 02/22] mm, page_alloc: Use new PageAnonHead helper in the free page fast path Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-11 10:20 +0200
  [PATCH 16/22] mm, page_alloc: Move __GFP_HARDWALL modifications out of the fastpath Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-11 10:20 +0200
  [PATCH 17/22] mm, page_alloc: Reduce cost of fair zone allocation policy retry Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-11 10:20 +0200
  [PATCH 18/22] mm, page_alloc: Shortcut watermark checks for order-0 pages Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-11 10:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 00/21] Optimise page alloc/free fast paths Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-11 10:30 +0200
  [PATCH 06/22] mm, page_alloc: Use __dec_zone_state for order-0 page allocation Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-11 10:30 +0200
  [PATCH 10/22] mm, page_alloc: Remove unnecessary local variable in get_page_from_freelist Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-11 10:30 +0200
  [PATCH 07/22] mm, page_alloc: Avoid unnecessary zone lookups during pageblock operations Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-11 10:30 +0200
  [PATCH 01/22] mm, page_alloc: Only check PageCompound for high-order pages Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-11 10:40 +0200
  [PATCH 03/22] mm, page_alloc: Reduce branches in zone_statistics Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-11 10:40 +0200

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