From a9cd410a3d296846a8125aa43d97a573a354c472 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arun KS Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 15:42:14 -0800 Subject: mm/page_alloc.c: memory hotplug: free pages as higher order When freeing pages are done with higher order, time spent on coalescing pages by buddy allocator can be reduced. With section size of 256MB, hot add latency of a single section shows improvement from 50-60 ms to less than 1 ms, hence improving the hot add latency by 60 times. Modify external providers of online callback to align with the change. [arunks@codeaurora.org: v11] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547792588-18032-1-git-send-email-arunks@codeaurora.org [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unused local, per Arun] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: avoid return of void-returning __free_pages_core(), per Oscar] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix it for mm-convert-totalram_pages-and-totalhigh_pages-variables-to-atomic.patch] [arunks@codeaurora.org: v8] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547032395-24582-1-git-send-email-arunks@codeaurora.org [arunks@codeaurora.org: v9] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547098543-26452-1-git-send-email-arunks@codeaurora.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1538727006-5727-1-git-send-email-arunks@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Arun KS Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan Cc: Haiyang Zhang Cc: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Mathieu Malaterre Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Souptick Joarder Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Aaron Lu Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri Cc: Vinayak Menon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/internal.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'mm/internal.h') diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h index f4a7bb02decf..536bc2a839b9 100644 --- a/mm/internal.h +++ b/mm/internal.h @@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ static inline struct page *pageblock_pfn_to_page(unsigned long start_pfn, extern int __isolate_free_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order); extern void memblock_free_pages(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn, unsigned int order); +extern void __free_pages_core(struct page *page, unsigned int order); extern void prep_compound_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order); extern void post_alloc_hook(struct page *page, unsigned int order, gfp_t gfp_flags); -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522