From: David Rientjes Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 22:37:30 +0000 (-0700) Subject: mm, mempolicy: remove per-process flag X-Git-Tag: v3.15-rc1~57^2~126 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f0432d159601f96839f514f286eaa5b75c4112dc;p=pandora-kernel.git mm, mempolicy: remove per-process flag PF_MEMPOLICY is an unnecessary optimization for CONFIG_SLAB users. There's no significant performance degradation to checking current->mempolicy rather than current->flags & PF_MEMPOLICY in the allocation path, especially since this is considered unlikely(). Running TCP_RR with netperf-2.4.5 through localhost on 16 cpu machine with 64GB of memory and without a mempolicy: threads before after 16 1249409 1244487 32 1281786 1246783 48 1239175 1239138 64 1244642 1241841 80 1244346 1248918 96 1266436 1254316 112 1307398 1312135 128 1327607 1326502 Per-process flags are a scarce resource so we should free them up whenever possible and make them available. We'll be using it shortly for memcg oom reserves. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Jianguo Wu Cc: Tim Hockin Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed