From 0d5d823ab4e608ec7b52ac4410de4cb74bbe0edd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:07:16 -0700 Subject: mm: move zone->pages_scanned into a vmstat counter zone->pages_scanned is a write-intensive cache line during page reclaim and it's also updated during page free. Move the counter into vmstat to take advantage of the per-cpu updates and do not update it in the free paths unless necessary. On a small UMA machine running tiobench the difference is marginal. On a 4-node machine the overhead is more noticable. Note that automatic NUMA balancing was disabled for this test as otherwise the system CPU overhead is unpredictable. 3.16.0-rc3 3.16.0-rc3 3.16.0-rc3 vanillarearrange-v5 vmstat-v5 User 746.94 759.78 774.56 System 65336.22 58350.98 32847.27 Elapsed 27553.52 27282.02 27415.04 Note that the overhead reduction will vary depending on where exactly pages are allocated and freed. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/vmscan.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c') diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 5fec1ba9951f..9c8222b499b4 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -174,7 +174,8 @@ static unsigned long zone_reclaimable_pages(struct zone *zone) bool zone_reclaimable(struct zone *zone) { - return zone->pages_scanned < zone_reclaimable_pages(zone) * 6; + return zone_page_state(zone, NR_PAGES_SCANNED) < + zone_reclaimable_pages(zone) * 6; } static unsigned long get_lru_size(struct lruvec *lruvec, enum lru_list lru) @@ -1508,7 +1509,7 @@ shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct lruvec *lruvec, __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON + file, nr_taken); if (global_reclaim(sc)) { - zone->pages_scanned += nr_scanned; + __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_PAGES_SCANNED, nr_scanned); if (current_is_kswapd()) __count_zone_vm_events(PGSCAN_KSWAPD, zone, nr_scanned); else @@ -1698,7 +1699,7 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, nr_taken = isolate_lru_pages(nr_to_scan, lruvec, &l_hold, &nr_scanned, sc, isolate_mode, lru); if (global_reclaim(sc)) - zone->pages_scanned += nr_scanned; + __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_PAGES_SCANNED, nr_scanned); reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[file] += nr_taken; -- cgit v1.2.3