The patch titled
Subject: mm/page_alloc: convert zone_pcp_update() to rely on memory barriers instead of stop_machine()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-page_alloc-convert-zone_pcp_update-to-rely-on-memory-barriers-instead-of-stop_machine.patch
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From: Cody P Schafer <cody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/page_alloc: convert zone_pcp_update() to rely on memory barriers instead of stop_machine()
zone_pcp_update()'s goal is to adjust the ->high and ->mark members of a
percpu pageset based on a zone's ->managed_pages. We don't need to drain
the entire percpu pageset just to modify these fields.
This lets us avoid calling setup_pageset() (and the draining required to
call it) and instead allows simply setting the fields' values (with some
attention paid to memory barriers to prevent the relationship between
->batch and ->high from being thrown off).
This does change the behavior of zone_pcp_update() as the percpu pagesets
will not be drained when zone_pcp_update() is called (they will end up
being shrunk, not completely drained, later when a 0-order page is freed
in free_hot_cold_page()).
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 33 +++++++++------------------------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-convert-zone_pcp_update-to-rely-on-memory-barriers-instead-of-stop_machine mm/page_alloc.c
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-convert-zone_pcp_update-to-rely-on-memory-barriers-instead-of-stop_machine
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -6085,33 +6085,18 @@ void free_contig_range(unsigned long pfn
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
-static int __meminit __zone_pcp_update(void *data)
-{
- struct zone *zone = data;
- int cpu;
- unsigned long batch = zone_batchsize(zone), flags;
-
- for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
- struct per_cpu_pageset *pset;
- struct per_cpu_pages *pcp;
-
- pset = per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu);
- pcp = &pset->pcp;
-
- local_irq_save(flags);
- if (pcp->count > 0)
- free_pcppages_bulk(zone, pcp->count, pcp);
- drain_zonestat(zone, pset);
- setup_pageset(pset, batch);
- local_irq_restore(flags);
- }
- return 0;
-}
-
+/*
+ * The zone indicated has a new number of managed_pages; batch sizes and percpu
+ * page high values need to be recalulated.
+ */
void __meminit zone_pcp_update(struct zone *zone)
{
+ unsigned cpu;
+ unsigned long batch;
mutex_lock(&pcp_batch_high_lock);
- stop_machine(__zone_pcp_update, zone, NULL);
+ batch = zone_batchsize(zone);
+ for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
+ pageset_set_batch(per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu), batch);
mutex_unlock(&pcp_batch_high_lock);
}
#endif
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from cody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-page_alloc-factor-out-setting-of-pcp-high-and-pcp-batch.patch
mm-page_alloc-prevent-concurrent-updaters-of-pcp-batch-and-high.patch
mm-page_alloc-insert-memory-barriers-to-allow-async-update-of-pcp-batch-and-high.patch
mm-page_alloc-protect-pcp-batch-accesses-with-access_once.patch
mm-page_alloc-convert-zone_pcp_update-to-rely-on-memory-barriers-instead-of-stop_machine.patch
mm-page_alloc-when-handling-percpu_pagelist_fraction-dont-unneedly-recalulate-high.patch
mm-page_alloc-factor-setup_pageset-into-pageset_init-and-pageset_set_batch.patch
mm-page_alloc-relocate-comment-to-be-directly-above-code-it-refers-to.patch
mm-page_alloc-factor-zone_pageset_init-out-of-setup_zone_pageset.patch
mm-page_alloc-in-zone_pcp_update-uze-zone_pageset_init.patch
mm-page_alloc-rename-setup_pagelist_highmark-to-match-naming-of-pageset_set_batch.patch
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