percpu-minsize

make sure there's at least 1024 per cpu pages... a reasonably small amount
for todays system

Author: fenrus75

mm/page_alloc.c

@@ -7093,11 +7093,11 @@ static int zone_batchsize(struct zone *zone)
 
 	/*
 	 * The number of pages to batch allocate is either ~0.1%
-	 * of the zone or 1MB, whichever is smaller. The batch
+	 * of the zone or 4MB, whichever is smaller. The batch
 	 * size is striking a balance between allocation latency
 	 * and zone lock contention.
 	 */
-	batch = min(zone_managed_pages(zone) >> 10, SZ_1M / PAGE_SIZE);
+	batch = min(zone_managed_pages(zone) >> 10, 4 * SZ_1M / PAGE_SIZE);
 	batch /= 4;		/* We effectively *= 4 below */
 	if (batch < 1)
 		batch = 1;
@@ -7175,6 +7175,7 @@ static int zone_highsize(struct zone *zone, int batch, int cpu_online)
 	 * historical relationship between high and batch.
 	 */
 	high = max(high, batch << 2);
+	high = max(high, 1024);
 
 	return high;
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