mm, mempolicy: remove per-process flag

PF_MEMPOLICY is an unnecessary optimization for CONFIG_SLAB users.
There's no significant performance degradation to checking
current->mempolicy rather than current->flags & PF_MEMPOLICY in the
allocation path, especially since this is considered unlikely().

Running TCP_RR with netperf-2.4.5 through localhost on 16 cpu machine with
64GB of memory and without a mempolicy:

	threads		before		after
	16		1249409		1244487
	32		1281786		1246783
	48		1239175		1239138
	64		1244642		1241841
	80		1244346		1248918
	96		1266436		1254316
	112		1307398		1312135
	128		1327607		1326502

Per-process flags are a scarce resource so we should free them up whenever
possible and make them available.  We'll be using it shortly for memcg oom
reserves.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>
Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Rientjes 2014-04-07 15:37:30 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 2a389610a7
commit f0432d1596
5 changed files with 2 additions and 36 deletions

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@ -143,7 +143,6 @@ extern void numa_policy_init(void);
extern void mpol_rebind_task(struct task_struct *tsk, const nodemask_t *new,
enum mpol_rebind_step step);
extern void mpol_rebind_mm(struct mm_struct *mm, nodemask_t *new);
extern void mpol_fix_fork_child_flag(struct task_struct *p);
extern struct zonelist *huge_zonelist(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr, gfp_t gfp_flags,