mm, page_alloc: reduce cost of fair zone allocation policy retry
The fair zone allocation policy is not without cost but it can be reduced slightly. This patch removes an unnecessary local variable, checks the likely conditions of the fair zone policy first, uses a bool instead of a flags check and falls through when a remote node is encountered instead of doing a full restart. The benefit is marginal but it's there 4.6.0-rc2 4.6.0-rc2 decstat-v1r20 optfair-v1r20 Min alloc-odr0-1 377.00 ( 0.00%) 380.00 ( -0.80%) Min alloc-odr0-2 273.00 ( 0.00%) 273.00 ( 0.00%) Min alloc-odr0-4 226.00 ( 0.00%) 227.00 ( -0.44%) Min alloc-odr0-8 196.00 ( 0.00%) 196.00 ( 0.00%) Min alloc-odr0-16 183.00 ( 0.00%) 183.00 ( 0.00%) Min alloc-odr0-32 175.00 ( 0.00%) 173.00 ( 1.14%) Min alloc-odr0-64 172.00 ( 0.00%) 169.00 ( 1.74%) Min alloc-odr0-128 170.00 ( 0.00%) 169.00 ( 0.59%) Min alloc-odr0-256 183.00 ( 0.00%) 180.00 ( 1.64%) Min alloc-odr0-512 191.00 ( 0.00%) 190.00 ( 0.52%) Min alloc-odr0-1024 199.00 ( 0.00%) 198.00 ( 0.50%) Min alloc-odr0-2048 204.00 ( 0.00%) 204.00 ( 0.00%) Min alloc-odr0-4096 210.00 ( 0.00%) 209.00 ( 0.48%) Min alloc-odr0-8192 213.00 ( 0.00%) 213.00 ( 0.00%) Min alloc-odr0-16384 214.00 ( 0.00%) 214.00 ( 0.00%) The benefit is marginal at best but one of the most important benefits, avoiding a second search when falling back to another node is not triggered by this particular test so the benefit for some corner cases is understated. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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