On (13/12/07 16:37), Andrew Morton didst pronounce: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:30:00 -0500 > Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Here's the commit that causes the regression: > > > > ... > > > > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c > > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c > > @@ -760,7 +760,8 @@ static int rmqueue_bulk(struct zone *zone, unsigned int > > order, > > struct page *page = __rmqueue(zone, order, migratetype); > > if (unlikely(page == NULL)) > > break; > > - list_add_tail(&page->lru, list); > > + list_add(&page->lru, list); > > well that looks fishy. >
The reasoning behind the change was the first page encountered on the list by the caller would have a matching migratetype. I failed to take into account the physical ordering of pages returned. I'm setting up to run some performance benchmarks of the candidate fix merged into the -mm tree to see if the search shows up or not. I'm testing against 2.6.25-rc5 but it'll take a few hours to complete. -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
