From e78bbfa8262424417a29349a8064a535053912b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brice Goglin Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:27:15 -0700 Subject: mm: stop returning -ENOENT from sys_move_pages() if nothing got migrated A patchset reworking sys_move_pages(). It removes the possibly large vmalloc by using multiple chunks when migrating large buffers. It also dramatically increases the throughput for large buffers since the lookup in new_page_node() is now limited to a single chunk, causing the quadratic complexity to have a much slower impact. There is no need to use any radix-tree-like structure to improve this lookup. sys_move_pages() duration on a 4-quadcore-opteron 2347HE (1.9Gz), migrating between nodes #2 and #3: length move_pages (us) move_pages+patch (us) 4kB 126 98 40kB 198 168 400kB 963 937 4MB 12503 11930 40MB 246867 11848 Patches #1 and #4 are the important ones: 1) stop returning -ENOENT from sys_move_pages() if nothing got migrated 2) don't vmalloc a huge page_to_node array for do_pages_stat() 3) extract do_pages_move() out of sys_move_pages() 4) rework do_pages_move() to work on page_sized chunks 5) move_pages: no need to set pp->page to ZERO_PAGE(0) by default This patch: There is no point in returning -ENOENT from sys_move_pages() if all pages were already on the right node, while we return 0 if only 1 page was not. Most application don't know where their pages are allocated, so it's not an error to try to migrate them anyway. Just return 0 and let the status array in user-space be checked if the application needs details. It will make the upcoming chunked-move_pages() support much easier. Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/migrate.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c index 6802a7a3dfe..f233519f045 100644 --- a/mm/migrate.c +++ b/mm/migrate.c @@ -896,11 +896,10 @@ set_status: pp->status = err; } + err = 0; if (!list_empty(&pagelist)) err = migrate_pages(&pagelist, new_page_node, (unsigned long)pm); - else - err = -ENOENT; up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); return err; -- cgit v1.2.3