page allocator: move check for disabled anti-fragmentation out of fastpath

On low-memory systems, anti-fragmentation gets disabled as there is
nothing it can do and it would just incur overhead shuffling pages between
lists constantly.  Currently the check is made in the free page fast path
for every page.  This patch moves it to a slow path.  On machines with low
memory, there will be small amount of additional overhead as pages get
shuffled between lists but it should quickly settle.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index a47c879..0aa4445 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -50,9 +50,6 @@ extern int page_group_by_mobility_disabled;
 
 static inline int get_pageblock_migratetype(struct page *page)
 {
-       if (unlikely(page_group_by_mobility_disabled))
-               return MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE;
-
        return get_pageblock_flags_group(page, PB_migrate, PB_migrate_end);
 }
 

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 512bf9a..b098596 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -168,6 +168,10 @@ int page_group_by_mobility_disabled __read_mostly;
 
 static void set_pageblock_migratetype(struct page *page, int migratetype)
 {
+
+       if (unlikely(page_group_by_mobility_disabled))
+               migratetype = MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE;
+
        set_pageblock_flags_group(page, (unsigned long)migratetype,
                                        PB_migrate, PB_migrate_end);
 }