[PATCH 5/11] Drain per-cpu lists when high-order allocations fail

[Mel Gorman]

Per-cpu pages can accidentally cause fragmentation because they are free, but
pinned pages in an otherwise contiguous block.  When this patch is applied,
the per-cpu caches are drained after the direct-reclaim is entered if the
requested order is greater than 0. It simply reuses the code used by suspend
and hotplug.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
---

 Kconfig      |    4 ++++
 page_alloc.c |   32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff -rup -X /usr/src/patchset-0.6/bin//dontdiff linux-2.6.19-rc4-mm1-004_configurable/mm/Kconfig linux-2.6.19-rc4-mm1-005_drainpercpu/mm/Kconfig
--- linux-2.6.19-rc4-mm1-004_configurable/mm/Kconfig	2006-10-31 13:27:13.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc4-mm1-005_drainpercpu/mm/Kconfig	2006-10-31 13:44:09.000000000 +0000
@@ -247,3 +247,7 @@ config READAHEAD_SMOOTH_AGING
 		- have the danger of readahead thrashing(i.e. memory tight)
 
 	  This feature is only available on non-NUMA systems.
+
+config NEED_DRAIN_PERCPU_PAGES
+	def_bool y
+	depends on PM || HOTPLUG_CPU || PAGEALLOC_ANTIFRAG
diff -rup -X /usr/src/patchset-0.6/bin//dontdiff linux-2.6.19-rc4-mm1-004_configurable/mm/page_alloc.c linux-2.6.19-rc4-mm1-005_drainpercpu/mm/page_alloc.c
--- linux-2.6.19-rc4-mm1-004_configurable/mm/page_alloc.c	2006-10-31 13:42:06.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc4-mm1-005_drainpercpu/mm/page_alloc.c	2006-10-31 13:44:09.000000000 +0000
@@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ void drain_node_pages(int nodeid)
 }
 #endif
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_PM) || defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU)
+#ifdef CONFIG_NEED_DRAIN_PERCPU_PAGES
 static void __drain_pages(unsigned int cpu)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
@@ -826,7 +826,7 @@ static void __drain_pages(unsigned int c
 		}
 	}
 }
-#endif /* CONFIG_PM || CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */
+#endif /* CONFIG_DRAIN_PERCPU_PAGES */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PM
 
@@ -863,7 +863,9 @@ void mark_free_pages(struct zone *zone)
 
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
 }
+#endif /* CONFIG_PM */
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_PM) || defined(CONFIG_PAGEALLOC_ANTIFRAG)
 /*
  * Spill all of this CPU's per-cpu pages back into the buddy allocator.
  */
@@ -875,7 +877,28 @@ void drain_local_pages(void)
 	__drain_pages(smp_processor_id());
 	local_irq_restore(flags);	
 }
-#endif /* CONFIG_PM */
+
+void smp_drain_local_pages(void *arg)
+{
+	drain_local_pages();
+}
+
+/*
+ * Spill all the per-cpu pages from all CPUs back into the buddy allocator
+ */
+void drain_all_local_pages(void)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	local_irq_save(flags);
+	__drain_pages(smp_processor_id());
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
+
+	smp_call_function(smp_drain_local_pages, NULL, 0, 1);
+}
+#else
+void drain_all_local_pages(void) {}
+#endif /* CONFIG_PM || CONFIG_PAGEALLOC_ANTIFRAG */
 
 /*
  * Free a 0-order page
@@ -1381,6 +1404,9 @@ rebalance:
 
 	cond_resched();
 
+	if (order != 0)
+		drain_all_local_pages();
+
 	if (likely(did_some_progress)) {
 		page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask, order,
 						zonelist, alloc_flags);
-
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