From: Vlastimil Babka Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:32 +0000 (-0700) Subject: mm/compaction: do not count migratepages when unnecessary X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v3.16/fixes-against-rc1~56^2~16^2~134 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f8c9301fa5a2a8b873c67f2a3d8230d5c13f61b7;p=pandora-kernel.git mm/compaction: do not count migratepages when unnecessary During compaction, update_nr_listpages() has been used to count remaining non-migrated and free pages after a call to migrage_pages(). The freepages counting has become unneccessary, and it turns out that migratepages counting is also unnecessary in most cases. The only situation when it's needed to count cc->migratepages is when migrate_pages() returns with a negative error code. Otherwise, the non-negative return value is the number of pages that were not migrated, which is exactly the count of remaining pages in the cc->migratepages list. Furthermore, any non-zero count is only interesting for the tracepoint of mm_compaction_migratepages events, because after that all remaining unmigrated pages are put back and their count is set to 0. This patch therefore removes update_nr_listpages() completely, and changes the tracepoint definition so that the manual counting is done only when the tracepoint is enabled, and only when migrate_pages() returns a negative error code. Furthermore, migrate_pages() and the tracepoints won't be called when there's nothing to migrate. This potentially avoids some wasted cycles and reduces the volume of uninteresting mm_compaction_migratepages events where "nr_migrated=0 nr_failed=0". In the stress-highalloc mmtest, this was about 75% of the events. The mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages event is better for determining that nothing was isolated for migration, and this one was just duplicating the info. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Rik van Riel Acked-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed