Subject: + mm-avoid-unnecessary-atomic-operations-during-end_page_writeback.patch added to -mm tree
To: mgorman@xxxxxxx
From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 15:05:34 -0700
The patch titled
Subject: mm: avoid unnecessary atomic operations during end_page_writeback()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-avoid-unnecessary-atomic-operations-during-end_page_writeback.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-avoid-unnecessary-atomic-operations-during-end_page_writeback.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-avoid-unnecessary-atomic-operations-during-end_page_writeback.patch
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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: avoid unnecessary atomic operations during end_page_writeback()
If a page is marked for immediate reclaim then it is moved to the tail of
the LRU list. This occurs when the system is under enough memory pressure
for pages under writeback to reach the end of the LRU but we test for this
using atomic operations on every writeback. This patch uses an optimistic
non-atomic test first. It'll miss some pages in rare cases but the
consequences are not severe enough to warrant such a penalty.
While the function does not dominate profiles during a simple dd test the
cost of it is reduced.
73048 0.7428 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc5-mmotm-20140513 end_page_writeback
23740 0.2409 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc5-lessatomic end_page_writeback
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/filemap.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN mm/filemap.c~mm-avoid-unnecessary-atomic-operations-during-end_page_writeback mm/filemap.c
--- a/mm/filemap.c~mm-avoid-unnecessary-atomic-operations-during-end_page_writeback
+++ a/mm/filemap.c
@@ -753,8 +753,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unlock_page);
*/
void end_page_writeback(struct page *page)
{
- if (TestClearPageReclaim(page))
+ /*
+ * TestClearPageReclaim could be used here but it is an atomic
+ * operation and overkill in this particular case. Failing to
+ * shuffle a page marked for immediate reclaim is too mild to
+ * justify taking an atomic operation penalty at the end of
+ * ever page writeback.
+ */
+ if (PageReclaim(page)) {
+ ClearPageReclaim(page);
rotate_reclaimable_page(page);
+ }
if (!test_clear_page_writeback(page))
BUG();
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mgorman@xxxxxxx are
x86-require-x86-64-for-automatic-numa-balancing.patch
x86-define-_page_numa-by-reusing-software-bits-on-the-pmd-and-pte-levels.patch
x86-define-_page_numa-by-reusing-software-bits-on-the-pmd-and-pte-levels-fix-2.patch
mm-introduce-do_shared_fault-and-drop-do_fault-fix-fix.patch
mm-compactionc-isolate_freepages_block-small-tuneup.patch
mm-only-force-scan-in-reclaim-when-none-of-the-lrus-are-big-enough.patch
mm-huge_memoryc-complete-conversion-to-pr_foo.patch
mm-disable-zone_reclaim_mode-by-default.patch
mm-page_alloc-do-not-cache-reclaim-distances.patch
mm-page_alloc-do-not-cache-reclaim-distances-fix.patch
mm-page_alloc-prevent-migrate_reserve-pages-from-being-misplaced.patch
mm-compaction-clean-up-unused-code-lines.patch
mm-compaction-cleanup-isolate_freepages.patch
mm-compaction-cleanup-isolate_freepages-fix.patch
mm-compaction-cleanup-isolate_freepages-fix-2.patch
mm-compaction-cleanup-isolate_freepages-fix3.patch
mm-swapc-clean-up-lru_cache_add-functions.patch
mm-vmscan-do-not-throttle-based-on-pfmemalloc-reserves-if-node-has-no-zone_normal.patch
mm-vmscan-do-not-throttle-based-on-pfmemalloc-reserves-if-node-has-no-zone_normal-checkpatch-fixes.patch
mm-vmscan-do-not-throttle-based-on-pfmemalloc-reserves-if-node-has-no-zone_normal-fix.patch
mm-numa-add-migrated-transhuge-pages-to-lru-the-same-way-as-base-pages.patch
mm-swapc-introduce-put_refcounted_compound_page-helpers-for-spliting-put_compound_page.patch
mm-swapc-split-put_compound_page-function.patch
mm-introdule-compound_head_by_tail.patch
mm-x86-pgtable-drop-unneeded-preprocessor-ifdef.patch
mm-x86-pgtable-require-x86_64-for-soft-dirty-tracker.patch
mm-mempolicyc-parameter-doc-uniformization.patch
mm-migration-add-destination-page-freeing-callback.patch
mm-compaction-return-failed-migration-target-pages-back-to-freelist.patch
mm-compaction-add-per-zone-migration-pfn-cache-for-async-compaction.patch
mm-compaction-embed-migration-mode-in-compact_control.patch
mm-thp-avoid-excessive-compaction-latency-during-fault.patch
mm-thp-avoid-excessive-compaction-latency-during-fault-fix.patch
mm-compaction-terminate-async-compaction-when-rescheduling.patch
mm-compaction-do-not-count-migratepages-when-unnecessary.patch
mm-compaction-avoid-rescanning-pageblocks-in-isolate_freepages.patch
swap-change-swap_info-singly-linked-list-to-list_head.patch
plist-add-helper-functions.patch
plist-add-plist_requeue.patch
swap-change-swap_list_head-to-plist-add-swap_avail_head.patch
mm-page_alloc-do-not-update-zlc-unless-the-zlc-is-active.patch
mm-page_alloc-do-not-treat-a-zone-that-cannot-be-used-for-dirty-pages-as-full.patch
jump_label-expose-the-reference-count.patch
mm-page_alloc-use-jump-labels-to-avoid-checking-number_of_cpusets.patch
mm-page_alloc-use-jump-labels-to-avoid-checking-number_of_cpusets-fix.patch
mm-page_alloc-only-check-the-zone-id-check-if-pages-are-buddies.patch
mm-page_alloc-only-check-the-alloc-flags-and-gfp_mask-for-dirty-once.patch
mm-page_alloc-take-the-alloc_no_watermark-check-out-of-the-fast-path.patch
mm-page_alloc-use-word-based-accesses-for-get-set-pageblock-bitmaps.patch
mm-page_alloc-reduce-number-of-times-page_to_pfn-is-called.patch
mm-page_alloc-lookup-pageblock-migratetype-with-irqs-enabled-during-free.patch
mm-page_alloc-use-unsigned-int-for-order-in-more-places.patch
mm-page_alloc-convert-hot-cold-parameter-and-immediate-callers-to-bool.patch
mm-shmem-avoid-atomic-operation-during-shmem_getpage_gfp.patch
mm-do-not-use-atomic-operations-when-releasing-pages.patch
mm-do-not-use-unnecessary-atomic-operations-when-adding-pages-to-the-lru.patch
fs-buffer-do-not-use-unnecessary-atomic-operations-when-discarding-buffers.patch
fs-buffer-do-not-use-unnecessary-atomic-operations-when-discarding-buffers-fix.patch
mm-non-atomically-mark-page-accessed-during-page-cache-allocation-where-possible.patch
mm-page_alloc-calculate-classzone_idx-once-from-the-zonelist-ref.patch
mm-avoid-unnecessary-atomic-operations-during-end_page_writeback.patch
do_shared_fault-check-that-mmap_sem-is-held.patch
smp-print-more-useful-debug-info-upon-receiving-ipi-on-an-offline-cpu.patch
smp-print-more-useful-debug-info-upon-receiving-ipi-on-an-offline-cpu-fix.patch
smp-print-more-useful-debug-info-upon-receiving-ipi-on-an-offline-cpu-v5.patch
cpu-hotplug-stop-machine-plug-race-window-that-leads-to-ipi-to-offline-cpu.patch
cpu-hotplug-stop-machine-plug-race-window-that-leads-to-ipi-to-offline-cpu-v3.patch
cpu-hotplug-stop-machine-plug-race-window-that-leads-to-ipi-to-offline-cpu-v5.patch
cpu-hotplug-smp-flush-any-pending-ipi-callbacks-before-cpu-offline.patch
linux-next.patch
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