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/page_alloc.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c') diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index b7381d11f021..daa016063793 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -680,9 +680,12 @@ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zone *zone, int count, int migratetype = 0; int batch_free = 0; int to_free = count; + unsigned long nr_scanned; spin_lock(&zone->lock); - zone->pages_scanned = 0; + nr_scanned = zone_page_state(zone, NR_PAGES_SCANNED); + if (nr_scanned) + __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_PAGES_SCANNED, -nr_scanned); while (to_free) { struct page *page; @@ -731,8 +734,11 @@ static void free_one_page(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order, int migratetype) { + unsigned long nr_scanned; spin_lock(&zone->lock); - zone->pages_scanned = 0; + nr_scanned = zone_page_state(zone, NR_PAGES_SCANNED); + if (nr_scanned) + __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_PAGES_SCANNED, -nr_scanned); __free_one_page(page, pfn, zone, order, migratetype); if (unlikely(!is_migrate_isolate(migratetype))) @@ -3248,7 +3254,7 @@ void show_free_areas(unsigned int filter) K(zone_page_state(zone, NR_BOUNCE)), K(zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES)), K(zone_page_state(zone, NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP)), - zone->pages_scanned, + K(zone_page_state(zone, NR_PAGES_SCANNED)), (!zone_reclaimable(zone) ? "yes" : "no") ); printk("lowmem_reserve[]:"); -- cgit v1.2.3