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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2014-08-06 16:07:14 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-06 18:01:20 -0700
commit3484b2de9499df23c4604a513b36f96326ae81ad (patch)
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mm: rearrange zone fields into read-only, page alloc, statistics and page reclaim lines
The arrangement of struct zone has changed over time and now it has reached the point where there is some inappropriate sharing going on. On x86-64 for example o The zone->node field is shared with the zone lock and zone->node is accessed frequently from the page allocator due to the fair zone allocation policy. o span_seqlock is almost never used by shares a line with free_area o Some zone statistics share a cache line with the LRU lock so reclaim-intensive and allocator-intensive workloads can bounce the cache line on a stat update This patch rearranges struct zone to put read-only and read-mostly fields together and then splits the page allocator intensive fields, the zone statistics and the page reclaim intensive fields into their own cache lines. Note that the type of lowmem_reserve changes due to the watermark calculations being signed and avoiding a signed/unsigned conversion there. On the test configuration I used the overall size of struct zone shrunk by one cache line. On smaller machines, this is not likely to be noticable. However, on a 4-node NUMA machine running tiobench the system CPU overhead is reduced by this patch. 3.16.0-rc3 3.16.0-rc3 vanillarearrange-v5r9 User 746.94 759.78 System 65336.22 58350.98 Elapsed 27553.52 27282.02 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 'mm/vmstat.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmstat.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index b37bd49bfd55..8267f77d1875 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -1077,10 +1077,10 @@ static void zoneinfo_show_print(struct seq_file *m, pg_data_t *pgdat,
zone_page_state(zone, i));
seq_printf(m,
- "\n protection: (%lu",
+ "\n protection: (%ld",
zone->lowmem_reserve[0]);
for (i = 1; i < ARRAY_SIZE(zone->lowmem_reserve); i++)
- seq_printf(m, ", %lu", zone->lowmem_reserve[i]);
+ seq_printf(m, ", %ld", zone->lowmem_reserve[i]);
seq_printf(m,
")"
"\n pagesets");