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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
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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 'mm/vmstat.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmstat.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 8267f77d1875..e574e883fa70 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -763,6 +763,7 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
"nr_shmem",
"nr_dirtied",
"nr_written",
+ "nr_pages_scanned",
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
"numa_hit",
@@ -1067,7 +1068,7 @@ static void zoneinfo_show_print(struct seq_file *m, pg_data_t *pgdat,
min_wmark_pages(zone),
low_wmark_pages(zone),
high_wmark_pages(zone),
- zone->pages_scanned,
+ zone_page_state(zone, NR_PAGES_SCANNED),
zone->spanned_pages,
zone->present_pages,
zone->managed_pages);