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author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> | 2014-08-06 16:07:16 -0700 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2015-01-29 17:40:53 -0800 |
commit | e341f2a89ab31ede47254feac4f7abc3203ee56c (patch) | |
tree | 663ee0e2e63c91963eab33aeede1ed510fd70b7d /README | |
parent | 36806371a2a9c34c6e3cde683cb36732142f0627 (diff) | |
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mm: move zone->pages_scanned into a vmstat counter
commit 0d5d823ab4e608ec7b52ac4410de4cb74bbe0edd upstream.
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 <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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