From 0d3d062a6e289e065bd0aa537a6806a1806bf8aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:02:44 -0700 Subject: tracing, page-allocator: add trace event for page traffic related to the buddy lists The page allocation trace event reports that a page was successfully allocated but it does not specify where it came from. When analysing performance, it can be important to distinguish between pages coming from the per-cpu allocator and pages coming from the buddy lists as the latter requires the zone lock to the taken and more data structures to be examined. This patch adds a trace event for __rmqueue reporting when a page is being allocated from the buddy lists. It distinguishes between being called to refill the per-cpu lists or whether it is a high-order allocation. Similarly, this patch adds an event to catch when the PCP lists are being drained a little and pages are going back to the buddy lists. This is trickier to draw conclusions from but high activity on those events could explain why there were a large number of cache misses on a page-allocator-intensive workload. The coalescing and splitting of buddies involves a lot of writing of page metadata and cache line bounces not to mention the acquisition of an interrupt-safe lock necessary to enter this path. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Rik van Riel Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Larry Woodman Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Li Ming Chun Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/page_alloc.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 77f517c18b37..4c847cc57caf 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -535,6 +536,7 @@ static void free_pages_bulk(struct zone *zone, int count, page = list_entry(list->prev, struct page, lru); /* have to delete it as __free_one_page list manipulates */ list_del(&page->lru); + trace_mm_page_pcpu_drain(page, order, page_private(page)); __free_one_page(page, zone, order, page_private(page)); } spin_unlock(&zone->lock); @@ -890,6 +892,7 @@ retry_reserve: } } + trace_mm_page_alloc_zone_locked(page, order, migratetype); return page; } -- cgit v1.2.3