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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index b257720edfc..3b21a13d841 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1772,16 +1772,16 @@ static int __devinit zone_batchsize(struct zone *zone) batch = 1; /* - * We will be trying to allcoate bigger chunks of contiguous - * memory of the order of fls(batch). This should result in - * better cache coloring. + * Clamp the batch to a 2^n - 1 value. Having a power + * of 2 value was found to be more likely to have + * suboptimal cache aliasing properties in some cases. * - * A sanity check also to ensure that batch is still in limits. + * For example if 2 tasks are alternately allocating + * batches of pages, one task can end up with a lot + * of pages of one half of the possible page colors + * and the other with pages of the other colors. */ - batch = (1 << fls(batch + batch/2)); - - if (fls(batch) >= (PAGE_SHIFT + MAX_ORDER - 2)) - batch = PAGE_SHIFT + ((MAX_ORDER - 1 - PAGE_SHIFT)/2); + batch = (1 << (fls(batch + batch/2)-1)) - 1; return batch; } |