Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932083Ab3IYXWf (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:22:35 -0400 Received: from e28smtp08.in.ibm.com ([122.248.162.8]:48814 "EHLO e28smtp08.in.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754727Ab3IYXWa (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:22:30 -0400 From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" Subject: [RFC PATCH v4 19/40] mm: Provide a mechanism to release free memory to the region allocator To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, mgorman@suse.de, dave@sr71.net, hannes@cmpxchg.org, tony.luck@intel.com, matthew.garrett@nebula.com, riel@redhat.com, arjan@linux.intel.com, srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com, willy@linux.intel.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, lenb@kernel.org, rjw@sisk.pl Cc: gargankita@gmail.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com, andi@firstfloor.org, isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com, santosh.shilimkar@ti.com, kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com, srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 04:48:18 +0530 Message-ID: <20130925231816.26184.98910.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20130925231250.26184.31438.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> References: <20130925231250.26184.31438.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> User-Agent: StGIT/0.14.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: No X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 13092523-2000-0000-0000-00000DDDF056 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1648 Lines: 50 Implement helper functions to release freepages from the buddy freelists to the region allocator. For simplicity, all operations related to the region allocator are performed at the granularity of entire memory regions. That is, when we release freepages to the region allocator, we free all the pages belonging to that region. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat --- mm/page_alloc.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index d96746e..c727bba 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -919,6 +919,26 @@ static void move_page_freelist(struct page *page, struct free_list *old_list, add_to_freelist(page, new_list, order); } +/* Add pages from the given buddy freelist to the region allocator */ +static void add_to_region_allocator(struct zone *z, struct free_list *free_list, + int region_id) +{ + struct region_allocator *reg_alloc; + struct list_head *ralloc_list; + int order; + + if (WARN_ON(list_empty(&free_list->list))) + return; + + order = page_order(list_first_entry(&free_list->list, + struct page, lru)); + + reg_alloc = &z->region_allocator; + ralloc_list = ®_alloc->region[region_id].region_area[order].list; + + del_from_freelist_bulk(ralloc_list, free_list, order, region_id); +} + /* * Freeing function for a buddy system allocator. * -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/