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authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>2011-01-13 15:45:43 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-01-13 17:32:31 -0800
commitb44129b30652c8771db2265939bb8b463724043d (patch)
treed5b669ff4faea020b03e894706f49d5d1ae56907 /mm
parentmm: page allocator: adjust the per-cpu counter threshold when memory is low (diff)
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mm: vmstat: use a single setter function and callback for adjusting percpu thresholds
reduce_pgdat_percpu_threshold() and restore_pgdat_percpu_threshold() exist to adjust the per-cpu vmstat thresholds while kswapd is awake to avoid errors due to counter drift. The functions duplicate some code so this patch replaces them with a single set_pgdat_percpu_threshold() that takes a callback function to calculate the desired threshold as a parameter. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: readability tweak] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(): don't use for_each_online_cpu] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c19
-rw-r--r--mm/vmstat.c36
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 5da4295e7d67..86f8c3418795 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2448,9 +2448,24 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
*/
if (!sleeping_prematurely(pgdat, order, remaining)) {
trace_mm_vmscan_kswapd_sleep(pgdat->node_id);
- restore_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat);
+
+ /*
+ * vmstat counters are not perfectly
+ * accurate and the estimated value
+ * for counters such as NR_FREE_PAGES
+ * can deviate from the true value by
+ * nr_online_cpus * threshold. To
+ * avoid the zone watermarks being
+ * breached while under pressure, we
+ * reduce the per-cpu vmstat threshold
+ * while kswapd is awake and restore
+ * them before going back to sleep.
+ */
+ set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat,
+ calculate_normal_threshold);
schedule();
- reduce_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat);
+ set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat,
+ calculate_pressure_threshold);
} else {
if (remaining)
count_vm_event(KSWAPD_LOW_WMARK_HIT_QUICKLY);
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index bc0f095791b4..751a65e00aac 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_stat);
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-static int calculate_pressure_threshold(struct zone *zone)
+int calculate_pressure_threshold(struct zone *zone)
{
int threshold;
int watermark_distance;
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static int calculate_pressure_threshold(struct zone *zone)
return threshold;
}
-static int calculate_threshold(struct zone *zone)
+int calculate_normal_threshold(struct zone *zone)
{
int threshold;
int mem; /* memory in 128 MB units */
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static void refresh_zone_stat_thresholds(void)
for_each_populated_zone(zone) {
unsigned long max_drift, tolerate_drift;
- threshold = calculate_threshold(zone);
+ threshold = calculate_normal_threshold(zone);
for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu)->stat_threshold
@@ -185,46 +185,24 @@ static void refresh_zone_stat_thresholds(void)
}
}
-void reduce_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pg_data_t *pgdat)
+void set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pg_data_t *pgdat,
+ int (*calculate_pressure)(struct zone *))
{
struct zone *zone;
int cpu;
int threshold;
int i;
- get_online_cpus();
- for (i = 0; i < pgdat->nr_zones; i++) {
- zone = &pgdat->node_zones[i];
- if (!zone->percpu_drift_mark)
- continue;
-
- threshold = calculate_pressure_threshold(zone);
- for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
- per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu)->stat_threshold
- = threshold;
- }
- put_online_cpus();
-}
-
-void restore_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pg_data_t *pgdat)
-{
- struct zone *zone;
- int cpu;
- int threshold;
- int i;
-
- get_online_cpus();
for (i = 0; i < pgdat->nr_zones; i++) {
zone = &pgdat->node_zones[i];
if (!zone->percpu_drift_mark)
continue;
- threshold = calculate_threshold(zone);
- for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
+ threshold = (*calculate_pressure)(zone);
+ for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu)->stat_threshold
= threshold;
}
- put_online_cpus();
}
/*