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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2014-08-06 16:07:16 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-06 18:01:20 -0700
commit0d5d823ab4e608ec7b52ac4410de4cb74bbe0edd (patch)
tree7b9d8f7625e45c28ad626c7b5419e8e33c59788e /include
parentmm: rearrange zone fields into read-only, page alloc, statistics and page reclaim lines (diff)
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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 <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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mmzone.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index ed0876bb902c..0bd77f730b38 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ enum zone_stat_item {
NR_SHMEM, /* shmem pages (included tmpfs/GEM pages) */
NR_DIRTIED, /* page dirtyings since bootup */
NR_WRITTEN, /* page writings since bootup */
+ NR_PAGES_SCANNED, /* pages scanned since last reclaim */
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
NUMA_HIT, /* allocated in intended node */
NUMA_MISS, /* allocated in non intended node */
@@ -480,7 +481,6 @@ struct zone {
/* Fields commonly accessed by the page reclaim scanner */
spinlock_t lru_lock;
- unsigned long pages_scanned; /* since last reclaim */
struct lruvec lruvec;
/* Evictions & activations on the inactive file list */