mm, page_alloc: inline the fast path of the zonelist iterator
The page allocator iterates through a zonelist for zones that match the
addressing limitations and nodemask of the caller but many allocations
will not be restricted. Despite this, there is always functional call
overhead which builds up.
This patch inlines the optimistic basic case and only calls the iterator
function for the complex case. A hindrance was the fact that
cpuset_current_mems_allowed is used in the fastpath as the allowed
nodemask even though all nodes are allowed on most systems. The patch
handles this by only considering cpuset_current_mems_allowed if a cpuset
exists. As well as being faster in the fast-path, this removes some
junk in the slowpath.
The performance difference on a page allocator microbenchmark is;
4.6.0-rc2 4.6.0-rc2
statinline-v1r20 optiter-v1r20
Min alloc-odr0-1 412.00 ( 0.00%) 382.00 ( 7.28%)
Min alloc-odr0-2 301.00 ( 0.00%) 282.00 ( 6.31%)
Min alloc-odr0-4 247.00 ( 0.00%) 233.00 ( 5.67%)
Min alloc-odr0-8 215.00 ( 0.00%) 203.00 ( 5.58%)
Min alloc-odr0-16 199.00 ( 0.00%) 188.00 ( 5.53%)
Min alloc-odr0-32 191.00 ( 0.00%) 182.00 ( 4.71%)
Min alloc-odr0-64 187.00 ( 0.00%) 177.00 ( 5.35%)
Min alloc-odr0-128 185.00 ( 0.00%) 175.00 ( 5.41%)
Min alloc-odr0-256 193.00 ( 0.00%) 184.00 ( 4.66%)
Min alloc-odr0-512 207.00 ( 0.00%) 197.00 ( 4.83%)
Min alloc-odr0-1024 213.00 ( 0.00%) 203.00 ( 4.69%)
Min alloc-odr0-2048 220.00 ( 0.00%) 209.00 ( 5.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-4096 226.00 ( 0.00%) 214.00 ( 5.31%)
Min alloc-odr0-8192 229.00 ( 0.00%) 218.00 ( 4.80%)
Min alloc-odr0-16384 229.00 ( 0.00%) 219.00 ( 4.37%)
perf indicated that next_zones_zonelist disappeared in the profile and
__next_zones_zonelist did not appear. This is expected as the
micro-benchmark would hit the inlined fast-path every time.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: 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>
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