mm/page_alloc: move pages to tail in move_to_free_list()
authorDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Fri, 16 Oct 2020 03:09:30 +0000 (20:09 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 16 Oct 2020 18:11:18 +0000 (11:11 -0700)
commit293ffa5ebb9c08a77d8de458166c31b4d7b0cd65
tree0e97070f6b2a70fae44904bd0e9515d62a44bfda
parent47b6a24a23825ae7b33ff11396980da7c353843d
mm/page_alloc: move pages to tail in move_to_free_list()

Whenever we move pages between freelists via move_to_free_list()/
move_freepages_block(), we don't actually touch the pages:
1. Page isolation doesn't actually touch the pages, it simply isolates
   pageblocks and moves all free pages to the MIGRATE_ISOLATE freelist.
   When undoing isolation, we move the pages back to the target list.
2. Page stealing (steal_suitable_fallback()) moves free pages directly
   between lists without touching them.
3. reserve_highatomic_pageblock()/unreserve_highatomic_pageblock() moves
   free pages directly between freelists without touching them.

We already place pages to the tail of the freelists when undoing isolation
via __putback_isolated_page(), let's do it in any case (e.g., if order <=
pageblock_order) and document the behavior. To simplify, let's move the
pages to the tail for all move_to_free_list()/move_freepages_block() users.

In 2., the target list is empty, so there should be no change.  In 3., we
might observe a change, however, highatomic is more concerned about
allocations succeeding than cache hotness - if we ever realize this change
degrades a workload, we can special-case this instance and add a proper
comment.

This change results in all pages getting onlined via online_pages() to be
placed to the tail of the freelist.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Scott Cheloha <cheloha@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201005121534.15649-4-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c
mm/page_isolation.c