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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mmzone.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mmzone.h | 74 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 74 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index 38bed71..1e88aae 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -589,75 +589,8 @@ static inline bool zone_is_empty(struct zone *zone) * [1] : No fallback (__GFP_THISNODE) */ #define MAX_ZONELISTS 2 - - -/* - * We cache key information from each zonelist for smaller cache - * footprint when scanning for free pages in get_page_from_freelist(). - * - * 1) The BITMAP fullzones tracks which zones in a zonelist have come - * up short of free memory since the last time (last_fullzone_zap) - * we zero'd fullzones. - * 2) The array z_to_n[] maps each zone in the zonelist to its node - * id, so that we can efficiently evaluate whether that node is - * set in the current tasks mems_allowed. - * - * Both fullzones and z_to_n[] are one-to-one with the zonelist, - * indexed by a zones offset in the zonelist zones[] array. - * - * The get_page_from_freelist() routine does two scans. During the - * first scan, we skip zones whose corresponding bit in 'fullzones' - * is set or whose corresponding node in current->mems_allowed (which - * comes from cpusets) is not set. During the second scan, we bypass - * this zonelist_cache, to ensure we look methodically at each zone. - * - * Once per second, we zero out (zap) fullzones, forcing us to - * reconsider nodes that might have regained more free memory. - * The field last_full_zap is the time we last zapped fullzones. - * - * This mechanism reduces the amount of time we waste repeatedly - * reexaming zones for free memory when they just came up low on - * memory momentarilly ago. - * - * The zonelist_cache struct members logically belong in struct - * zonelist. However, the mempolicy zonelists constructed for - * MPOL_BIND are intentionally variable length (and usually much - * shorter). A general purpose mechanism for handling structs with - * multiple variable length members is more mechanism than we want - * here. We resort to some special case hackery instead. - * - * The MPOL_BIND zonelists don't need this zonelist_cache (in good - * part because they are shorter), so we put the fixed length stuff - * at the front of the zonelist struct, ending in a variable length - * zones[], as is needed by MPOL_BIND. - * - * Then we put the optional zonelist cache on the end of the zonelist - * struct. This optional stuff is found by a 'zlcache_ptr' pointer in - * the fixed length portion at the front of the struct. This pointer - * both enables us to find the zonelist cache, and in the case of - * MPOL_BIND zonelists, (which will just set the zlcache_ptr to NULL) - * to know that the zonelist cache is not there. - * - * The end result is that struct zonelists come in two flavors: - * 1) The full, fixed length version, shown below, and - * 2) The custom zonelists for MPOL_BIND. - * The custom MPOL_BIND zonelists have a NULL zlcache_ptr and no zlcache. - * - * Even though there may be multiple CPU cores on a node modifying - * fullzones or last_full_zap in the same zonelist_cache at the same - * time, we don't lock it. This is just hint data - if it is wrong now - * and then, the allocator will still function, perhaps a bit slower. - */ - - -struct zonelist_cache { - unsigned short z_to_n[MAX_ZONES_PER_ZONELIST]; /* zone->nid */ - DECLARE_BITMAP(fullzones, MAX_ZONES_PER_ZONELIST); /* zone full? */ - unsigned long last_full_zap; /* when last zap'd (jiffies) */ -}; #else #define MAX_ZONELISTS 1 -struct zonelist_cache; #endif /* @@ -675,9 +608,6 @@ struct zoneref { * allocation, the other zones are fallback zones, in decreasing * priority. * - * If zlcache_ptr is not NULL, then it is just the address of zlcache, - * as explained above. If zlcache_ptr is NULL, there is no zlcache. - * * * To speed the reading of the zonelist, the zonerefs contain the zone index * of the entry being read. Helper functions to access information given * a struct zoneref are @@ -687,11 +617,7 @@ struct zoneref { * zonelist_node_idx() - Return the index of the node for an entry */ struct zonelist { - struct zonelist_cache *zlcache_ptr; // NULL or &zlcache struct zoneref _zonerefs[MAX_ZONES_PER_ZONELIST + 1]; -#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA - struct zonelist_cache zlcache; // optional ... -#endif }; #ifndef CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM |
