[PATCH 2/3] mm, vmscan: Release/reacquire lru_lock on pgdat change

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Mon Jul 18 2016 - 10:50:58 EST


With node-lru, the locking is based on the pgdat. As Minchan pointed
out, there is an opportunity to reduce LRU lock release/acquire in
check_move_unevictable_pages by only changing lock on a pgdat change.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 22 +++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 45344acf52ba..a6f31617a08c 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -3775,24 +3775,24 @@ int page_evictable(struct page *page)
void check_move_unevictable_pages(struct page **pages, int nr_pages)
{
struct lruvec *lruvec;
- struct zone *zone = NULL;
+ struct pglist_data *pgdat = NULL;
int pgscanned = 0;
int pgrescued = 0;
int i;

for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
struct page *page = pages[i];
- struct zone *pagezone;
+ struct pglist_data *pagepgdat = page_pgdat(page);

pgscanned++;
- pagezone = page_zone(page);
- if (pagezone != zone) {
- if (zone)
- spin_unlock_irq(zone_lru_lock(zone));
- zone = pagezone;
- spin_lock_irq(zone_lru_lock(zone));
+ pagepgdat = page_pgdat(page);
+ if (pagepgdat != pgdat) {
+ if (pgdat)
+ spin_unlock_irq(&pgdat->lru_lock);
+ pgdat = pagepgdat;
+ spin_lock_irq(&pgdat->lru_lock);
}
- lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, zone->zone_pgdat);
+ lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, pgdat);

if (!PageLRU(page) || !PageUnevictable(page))
continue;
@@ -3808,10 +3808,10 @@ void check_move_unevictable_pages(struct page **pages, int nr_pages)
}
}

- if (zone) {
+ if (pgdat) {
__count_vm_events(UNEVICTABLE_PGRESCUED, pgrescued);
__count_vm_events(UNEVICTABLE_PGSCANNED, pgscanned);
- spin_unlock_irq(zone_lru_lock(zone));
+ spin_unlock_irq(&pgdat->lru_lock);
}
}
#endif /* CONFIG_SHMEM */
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2.6.4