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dougm
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The function vm_phys_free_contig invokes vm_phys_free_pages for every
power-of-two page block it frees, launching an unsuccessful search for
a buddy to pair up with each time.  The only possible buddy-up mergers
are across the boundaries of the freed region, so change
vm_phys_free_contig simply to enqueue the freed interior blocks, via a
new function vm_phys_enqueue_contig, and then call vm_phys_free_pages
on the bounding blocks to create as big a cross-boundary block as
possible after buddy-merging.

The only callers of vm_phys_free_contig at the moment call it in
situations where merging blocks across the boundary is clearly
impossible, so just call vm_phys_enqueue_contig in those places and
avoid trying to buddy-up at all.

One beneficiary of this change is in breaking reservations.  For the
case where memory is freed in breaking a reservation with only the
first and last pages allocated, the number of cycles consumed by the
operation drops about 11% with this change.

Suggested by: alc
Reviewed by: alc
Approved by: kib, markj (mentors)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16901

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