From 453f85d43fa9ee243f0fc3ac4e1be45615301e3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:38:03 -0800 Subject: mm: remove __GFP_COLD As the page free path makes no distinction between cache hot and cold pages, there is no real useful ordering of pages in the free list that allocation requests can take advantage of. Juding from the users of __GFP_COLD, it is likely that a number of them are the result of copying other sites instead of actually measuring the impact. Remove the __GFP_COLD parameter which simplifies a number of paths in the page allocator. This is potentially controversial but bear in mind that the size of the per-cpu pagelists versus modern cache sizes means that the whole per-cpu list can often fit in the L3 cache. Hence, there is only a potential benefit for microbenchmarks that alloc/free pages in a tight loop. It's even worse when THP is taken into account which has little or no chance of getting a cache-hot page as the per-cpu list is bypassed and the zeroing of multiple pages will thrash the cache anyway. The truncate microbenchmarks are not shown as this patch affects the allocation path and not the free path. A page fault microbenchmark was tested but it showed no sigificant difference which is not surprising given that the __GFP_COLD branches are a miniscule percentage of the fault path. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018075952.10627-9-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'tools/perf') diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c b/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c index cbf70738ef5f..ae11e4c3516a 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c @@ -641,7 +641,6 @@ static const struct { { "__GFP_ATOMIC", "_A" }, { "__GFP_IO", "I" }, { "__GFP_FS", "F" }, - { "__GFP_COLD", "CO" }, { "__GFP_NOWARN", "NWR" }, { "__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL", "R" }, { "__GFP_NOFAIL", "NF" }, -- cgit v1.2.3