From b121186ab1b12e2a96a945d88eae0735b4542158 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Shi Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:16:08 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: correct page->pfmemalloc to fix deactivate_slab regression Commit cfd19c5a9ecf ("mm: only set page->pfmemalloc when ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was used") tried to narrow down page->pfmemalloc setting, but it missed some places the pfmemalloc should be set. So, in __slab_alloc, the unalignment pfmemalloc and ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS cause incorrect deactivate_slab() on our core2 server: 64.73% fio [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock | --- _raw_spin_lock | |---0.34%-- deactivate_slab | __slab_alloc | kmem_cache_alloc | | That causes our fio sync write performance to have a 40% regression. Move the checking in get_page_from_freelist() which resolves this issue. Signed-off-by: Alex Shi Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: David Miller Tested-by: Eric Dumazet Tested-by: Sage Weil Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed