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/vmstat.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/vmstat.c') diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index 8267f77d1875..e574e883fa70 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -763,6 +763,7 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = { "nr_shmem", "nr_dirtied", "nr_written", + "nr_pages_scanned", #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA "numa_hit", @@ -1067,7 +1068,7 @@ static void zoneinfo_show_print(struct seq_file *m, pg_data_t *pgdat, min_wmark_pages(zone), low_wmark_pages(zone), high_wmark_pages(zone), - zone->pages_scanned, + zone_page_state(zone, NR_PAGES_SCANNED), zone->spanned_pages, zone->present_pages, zone->managed_pages); -- cgit v1.2.3