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Looking at perf-report and ASM-code for __alloc_pages_bulk() it is clear that the code activated is suboptimal. The compiler guesses wrong and places unlikely code at the beginning. Due to the use of WARN_ON_ONCE() macro the UD2 asm instruction is added to the code, which confuse the I-cache prefetcher in the CPU. [mgorman@techsingularity.net: minor changes and rebasing] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210325114228.27719-5-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me> Acked-By: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.