From 2bb921e526656556e68f99f5f15a4a1bf2691844 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Lameter Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:21:30 -0700 Subject: vmstat: create separate function to fold per cpu diffs into local counters The main idea behind this patchset is to reduce the vmstat update overhead by avoiding interrupt enable/disable and the use of per cpu atomics. This patch (of 3): It is better to have a separate folding function because refresh_cpu_vm_stats() also does other things like expire pages in the page allocator caches. If we have a separate function then refresh_cpu_vm_stats() is only called from the local cpu which allows additional optimizations. The folding function is only called when a cpu is being downed and therefore no other processor will be accessing the counters. Also simplifies synchronization. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix UP build] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro CC: Tejun Heo Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c') diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 42c59300bacd..f885eb827159 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -5435,7 +5435,7 @@ static int page_alloc_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self, * This is only okay since the processor is dead and cannot * race with what we are doing. */ - refresh_cpu_vm_stats(cpu); + cpu_vm_stats_fold(cpu); } return NOTIFY_OK; } -- cgit v1.2.3