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Patch series "Use per-cpu allocator for !irq requests and prepare for a bulk allocator", v5. This series is motivated by a conversation led by Jesper Dangaard Brouer at the last LSF/MM proposing a generic page pool for DMA-coherent pages. Part of his motivation was due to the overhead of allocating multiple order-0 that led some drivers to use high-order allocations and splitting them. This is very slow in some cases. The first two patches in this series restructure the page allocator such that it is relatively easy to introduce an order-0 bulk page allocator. A patch exists to do that and has been handed over to Jesper until an in-kernel users is created. The third patch prevents the per-cpu allocator being drained from IPI context as that can potentially corrupt the list after patch four is merged. The final patch alters the per-cpu alloctor to make it exclusive to !irq requests. This cuts allocation/free overhead by roughly 30%. Performance tests from both Jesper and me are included in the patch. This patch (of 4): buffered_rmqueue removes a page from a given zone and uses the per-cpu list for order-0. This is fine but a hypothetical caller that wanted multiple order-0 pages has to disable/reenable interrupts multiple times. This patch structures buffere_rmqueue such that it's relatively easy to build a bulk order-0 page allocator. There is no functional change. [mgorman@techsingularity.net: failed per-cpu refill may blow up] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170124112723.mshmgwq2ihxku2um@techsingularity.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123153906.3122-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: 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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