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>
This commit is contained in:
Mel Gorman
2014-08-06 16:07:16 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 3484b2de94
commit 0d5d823ab4
4 changed files with 16 additions and 8 deletions

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@@ -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 */