hugetlb: decrease hugetlb_lock cycling in gather_surplus_huge_pages

To reduce hugetlb_lock acquisitions and releases when freeing excess surplus
pages, scan the page list in two parts.  First, transfer the needed pages to
the hugetlb pool.  Then drop the lock and free the remaining pages back to the
buddy allocator.

In the common case there are zero excess pages and no lock operations are
required.

Thanks Mel Gorman for this improvement.

Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 3737d82f522..93ea46a0fba 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -372,11 +372,19 @@ retry:
         resv_huge_pages += delta;
         ret = 0;
 free:
+        /* Free the needed pages to the hugetlb pool */
         list_for_each_entry_safe(page, tmp, &surplus_list, lru) {
+                if ((--needed) < 0)
+                        break;
                 list_del(&page->lru);
-                if ((--needed) >= 0)
-                        enqueue_huge_page(page);
-                else {
+                enqueue_huge_page(page);
+        }
+
+        /* Free unnecessary surplus pages to the buddy allocator */
+        if (!list_empty(&surplus_list)) {
+                spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
+                list_for_each_entry_safe(page, tmp, &surplus_list, lru) {
+                        list_del(&page->lru);
                         /*
                          * The page has a reference count of zero already, so
                          * call free_huge_page directly instead of using
@@ -384,10 +392,9 @@ free:
                          * unlocked which is safe because free_huge_page takes
                          * hugetlb_lock before deciding how to free the page.
                          */
-                        spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
                         free_huge_page(page);
-                        spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
                 }
+                spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
         }
 
         return ret;