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If a candidate stable_node_dup has been found and it can accept further merges it can be refiled to the head of the list to speedup next searches without altering which dup is found and how the dups accumulate in the chain. We already refiled it back to the head in the prune_stale_stable_nodes case, but we didn't refile it if not pruning (which is more common). And we also refiled it when it was already at the head which is unnecessary (in the prune_stale_stable_nodes case, nr > 1 means there's more than one dup in the chain, it doesn't mean it's not already at the head of the chain). The stable_node_chain list is single threaded and there's no SMP locking contention so it should be faster to refile it to the head of the list also if prune_stale_stable_nodes is false. Profiling shows the refile happens 1.9% of the time when a dup is found with a max_page_sharing limit setting of 3 (with max_page_sharing of 2 the refile never happens of course as there's never space for one more merge) which is reasonably low. At higher max_page_sharing values it should be much less frequent. This is just an optimization. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518173721.22316-4-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Evgheni Dereveanchin <ederevea@redhat.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@canonical.com> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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README
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. 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.