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    mm, page_alloc: avoid looking up the first zone in a zonelist twice · c33d6c06
    Mel Gorman authored
    
    
    The allocator fast path looks up the first usable zone in a zonelist and
    then get_page_from_freelist does the same job in the zonelist iterator.
    This patch preserves the necessary information.
    
                                                 4.6.0-rc2                  4.6.0-rc2
                                            fastmark-v1r20             initonce-v1r20
      Min      alloc-odr0-1               364.00 (  0.00%)           359.00 (  1.37%)
      Min      alloc-odr0-2               262.00 (  0.00%)           260.00 (  0.76%)
      Min      alloc-odr0-4               214.00 (  0.00%)           214.00 (  0.00%)
      Min      alloc-odr0-8               186.00 (  0.00%)           186.00 (  0.00%)
      Min      alloc-odr0-16              173.00 (  0.00%)           173.00 (  0.00%)
      Min      alloc-odr0-32              165.00 (  0.00%)           165.00 (  0.00%)
      Min      alloc-odr0-64              161.00 (  0.00%)           162.00 ( -0.62%)
      Min      alloc-odr0-128             159.00 (  0.00%)           161.00 ( -1.26%)
      Min      alloc-odr0-256             168.00 (  0.00%)           170.00 ( -1.19%)
      Min      alloc-odr0-512             180.00 (  0.00%)           181.00 ( -0.56%)
      Min      alloc-odr0-1024            190.00 (  0.00%)           190.00 (  0.00%)
      Min      alloc-odr0-2048            196.00 (  0.00%)           196.00 (  0.00%)
      Min      alloc-odr0-4096            202.00 (  0.00%)           202.00 (  0.00%)
      Min      alloc-odr0-8192            206.00 (  0.00%)           205.00 (  0.49%)
      Min      alloc-odr0-16384           206.00 (  0.00%)           205.00 (  0.49%)
    
    The benefit is negligible and the results are within the noise but each
    cycle counts.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
    Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
    Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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