Re: [PATCH v8] mm/page_alloc.c: memory_hotplug: free pages as higher order

2019-01-09 Thread Arun KS
On 2019-01-09 21:47, Alexander Duyck wrote: On Wed, 2019-01-09 at 16:43 +0530, Arun KS wrote: When freeing pages are done with higher order, time spent on coalescing pages by buddy allocator can be reduced. With section size of 256MB, hot add latency of a single section shows improvement from

Re: [PATCH v8] mm/page_alloc.c: memory_hotplug: free pages as higher order

2019-01-09 Thread Alexander Duyck
On Wed, 2019-01-09 at 16:43 +0530, Arun KS wrote: > When freeing pages are done with higher order, time spent on coalescing > pages by buddy allocator can be reduced. With section size of 256MB, hot > add latency of a single section shows improvement from 50-60 ms to less > than 1 ms, hence improv

[PATCH v8] mm/page_alloc.c: memory_hotplug: free pages as higher order

2019-01-09 Thread Arun KS
When freeing pages are done with higher order, time spent on coalescing pages by buddy allocator can be reduced. With section size of 256MB, hot add latency of a single section shows improvement from 50-60 ms to less than 1 ms, hence improving the hot add latency by 60 times. Modify external prov