Mel Gorman 0d3d062a6e tracing, page-allocator: add trace event for page traffic related to the buddy lists ... The page allocation trace event reports that a page was successfully allocated but it does not specify where it came from. When analysing performance, it can be important to distinguish between pages coming from the per-cpu allocator and pages coming from the buddy lists as the latter requires the zone lock to the taken and more data structures to be examined. This patch adds a trace event for __rmqueue reporting when a page is being allocated from the buddy lists. It distinguishes between being called to refill the per-cpu lists or whether it is a high-order allocation. Similarly, this patch adds an event to catch when the PCP lists are being drained a little and pages are going back to the buddy lists. This is trickier to draw conclusions from but high activity on those events could explain why there were a large number of cache misses on a page-allocator-intensive workload. The coalescing and splitting of buddies involves a lot of writing of page metadata and cache line bounces not to mention the acquisition of an interrupt-safe lock necessary to enter this path. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>		2009-09-22 07:17:34 -07:00
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allocpercpu.c
backing-dev.c
bootmem.c
bounce.c
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c
fadvise.c
failslab.c
filemap.c
filemap_xip.c
fremap.c
highmem.c
hugetlb.c
init-mm.c
internal.h
Kconfig
Kconfig.debug
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c
ksm.c
maccess.c
madvise.c
Makefile
memcontrol.c
memory.c
memory_hotplug.c
mempolicy.c
mempool.c
migrate.c
mincore.c
mlock.c
mm_init.c
mmap.c
mmu_notifier.c
mmzone.c
mprotect.c
mremap.c
msync.c
nommu.c
oom_kill.c
page-writeback.c
page_alloc.c	tracing, page-allocator: add trace event for page traffic related to the buddy lists	2009-09-22 07:17:34 -07:00
page_cgroup.c
page_io.c
page_isolation.c
pagewalk.c
percpu.c
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c
rmap.c
shmem.c
shmem_acl.c
slab.c
slob.c
slub.c
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c
swap.c
swap_state.c
swapfile.c
thrash.c
truncate.c
util.c
vmalloc.c
vmscan.c
vmstat.c