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Hugh Dickins a7016235a6 mm: fix migratetype bug which slowed swapping 
After memory pressure has forced it to dip into the reserves, 2.6.32's
5f8dcc2121 "page-allocator: split per-cpu
list into one-list-per-migrate-type" has been returning MIGRATE_RESERVE
pages to the MIGRATE_MOVABLE free_list: in some sense depleting reserves.

Fix that in the most straightforward way (which, considering the overheads
of alternative approaches, is Mel's preference): the right migratetype is
already in page_private(page), but free_pcppages_bulk() wasn't using it.

How did this bug show up?  As a 20% slowdown in my tmpfs loop kbuild
swapping tests, on PowerMac G5 with SLUB allocator.  Bisecting to that
commit was easy, but explaining the magnitude of the slowdown not easy.

The same effect appears, but much less markedly, with SLAB, and even
less markedly on other machines (the PowerMac divides into fewer zones
than x86, I think that may be a factor).  We guess that lumpy reclaim
of short-lived high-order pages is implicated in some way, and probably
this bug has been tickling a poor decision somewhere in page reclaim.

But instrumentation hasn't told me much, I've run out of time and
imagination to determine exactly what's going on, and shouldn't hold up
the fix any longer: it's valid, and might even fix other misbehaviours.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-29 10:28:09 -08:00
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backing-dev.c flusher: Fix PF_FROZEN race 2009-12-03 13:49:43 +01:00
bootmem.c mm/bootmem.c: properly __init-annotate helper functions 2009-12-15 08:53:20 -08:00
bounce.c block: remove some includings of blktrace_api.h 2009-06-16 11:19:36 +02:00
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c dmapools: protect page_list walk in show_pools() 2009-06-30 18:56:00 -07:00
fadvise.c readahead: move max_sane_readahead() calls into force_page_cache_readahead() 2009-06-16 19:47:28 -07:00
failslab.c kmemtrace, mm: fix slab.h dependency problem in mm/failslab.c 2009-04-03 12:23:01 +02:00
filemap_xip.c const: mark struct vm_struct_operations 2009-09-27 11:39:25 -07:00
filemap.c mm: add new 'read_cache_page_gfp()' helper function 2010-01-27 09:20:03 -08:00
fremap.c
highmem.c highmem: Fix debug_kmap_atomic() to also handle KM_IRQ_PTE, KM_NMI, and KM_NMI_PTE 2009-11-10 04:15:47 +01:00
hugetlb.c mm: hugetlb: fix clear_huge_page() 2010-01-11 09:34:06 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c HWPOISON: Don't do early filtering if filter is disabled 2009-12-16 12:20:01 +01:00
init-mm.c mm: consolidate init_mm definition 2009-06-16 19:47:28 -07:00
internal.h HWPOISON: add an interface to switch off/on all the page filters 2009-12-16 12:19:59 +01:00
Kconfig HWPOISON: Add PROC_FS dependency to hwpoison injector v2 2009-12-21 19:56:42 +01:00
Kconfig.debug trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options 2009-09-21 15:14:57 +02:00
kmemcheck.c kmemcheck: add hooks for the page allocator 2009-06-15 15:48:33 +02:00
kmemleak-test.c percpu: clean up percpu variable definitions 2009-06-24 15:13:48 +09:00
kmemleak.c Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6 2009-12-17 16:00:19 -08:00
ksm.c ksm: remove unswappable max_kernel_pages 2009-12-15 08:53:20 -08:00
maccess.c maccess,probe_kernel: Allow arch specific override probe_kernel_(read|write) 2010-01-07 11:58:36 -06:00
madvise.c HWPOISON: Add a madvise() injector for soft page offlining 2009-12-16 12:20:00 +01:00
Makefile make generic_acl slightly more generic 2009-12-16 12:16:49 -05:00
memcontrol.c memcg: ensure list is empty at rmdir 2010-01-16 12:15:39 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: fix section mismatch in memory_hotplug.c 2009-12-15 08:53:20 -08:00
memory-failure.c HWPOISON: Add PROC_FS dependency to hwpoison injector v2 2009-12-21 19:56:42 +01:00
memory.c Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 2009-12-16 12:36:49 -08:00
mempolicy.c ksm: memory hotremove migration only 2009-12-15 08:53:20 -08:00
mempool.c mm: remove broken 'kzalloc' mempool 2009-09-22 07:17:35 -07:00
migrate.c mm: remove unevictable_migrate_page function 2009-12-15 08:53:23 -08:00
mincore.c mm: hugetlb: fix hugepage memory leak in mincore() 2009-12-15 08:53:24 -08:00
mlock.c mlock: replace stale comments in munlock_vma_page() 2009-12-15 08:53:23 -08:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c mm: move sys_mmap_pgoff from util.c 2009-12-30 12:23:27 -08:00
mmu_context.c mm: reduce atomic use on use_mm fast path 2009-09-22 07:17:42 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c ksm: add mmu_notifier set_pte_at_notify() 2009-09-22 07:17:31 -07:00
mmzone.c [ARM] Double check memmap is actually valid with a memmap has unexpected holes V2 2009-05-18 11:22:24 +01:00
mprotect.c perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
mremap.c Take arch_mmap_check() into get_unmapped_area() 2009-12-11 06:44:58 -05:00
msync.c
nommu.c nommu: fix shared mmap after truncate shrinkage problems 2010-01-16 12:15:40 -08:00
oom_kill.c memcg: avoid oom-killing innocent task in case of use_hierarchy 2009-12-16 07:20:07 -08:00
page_alloc.c mm: fix migratetype bug which slowed swapping 2010-01-29 10:28:09 -08:00
page_cgroup.c memory hotplug: alloc page from other node in memory online 2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
page_io.c swap: rework map_swap_page() again 2009-12-15 08:53:16 -08:00
page_isolation.c
page-writeback.c writeback: remove unused nonblocking and congestion checks 2009-12-03 13:54:25 +01:00
pagewalk.c mm hugetlb: add hugepage support to pagemap 2009-12-15 08:53:24 -08:00
percpu.c percpu: avoid calling __pcpu_ptr_to_addr(NULL) 2010-01-11 09:34:04 -08:00
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c cpumask: use new-style cpumask ops in mm/quicklist. 2009-09-24 09:34:52 +09:30
readahead.c readahead: add blk_run_backing_dev 2009-12-17 15:45:32 -08:00
rmap.c memcg: make memcg's file mapped consistent with global VM 2009-12-16 07:20:07 -08:00
shmem.c Fix breakage in shmem.c 2009-12-16 19:48:48 -05:00
slab.c SLAB: Fix lockdep annotation breakage 2009-12-28 20:57:27 +02:00
slob.c slab: remove duplicate kmem_cache_init_late() declarations 2009-08-06 11:36:25 +03:00
slub.c Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-14 10:13:22 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c memory hotplug: alloc page from other node in memory online 2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
sparse.c memory hotplug: alloc page from other node in memory online 2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: add_to_swap_cache() does not return -EEXIST 2009-09-22 07:17:35 -07:00
swap.c mm: replace various uses of num_physpages by totalram_pages 2009-09-22 07:17:38 -07:00
swapfile.c ksm: let shared pages be swappable 2009-12-15 08:53:19 -08:00
thrash.c mm: pass mm to grab_swap_token 2009-06-23 12:50:05 -07:00
truncate.c vfs: Fix vmtruncate() regression 2010-01-13 16:09:33 -08:00
util.c nommu: don't need get_unmapped_area() for NOMMU 2010-01-16 12:15:40 -08:00
vmalloc.c vmalloc: remove BUG_ON due to racy counting of VM_LAZY_FREE 2010-01-21 07:20:06 -08:00
vmscan.c vmscan: kswapd: don't retry balance_pgdat() if all zones are unreclaimable 2010-01-16 12:15:39 -08:00
vmstat.c vmscan: stop kswapd waiting on congestion when the min watermark is not being met 2009-12-15 08:53:16 -08:00