From a302eb4e4602d6444ae75a0e516fb2f2c62d6642 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Lameter Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:27:34 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] ZVC: Overstep counters Increments and decrements are usually grouped rather than mixed. We can optimize the inc and dec functions for that case. Increment and decrement the counters by 50% more than the threshold in those cases and set the differential accordingly. This decreases the need to update the atomic counters. The idea came originally from Andrew Morton. The overstepping alone was sufficient to address the contention issue found when updating the global and the per zone counters from 160 processors. Also remove some code in dec_zone_page_state. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/vmstat.c | 20 +++++--------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index dfdf241339..3799a0f754 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -190,8 +190,8 @@ static void __inc_zone_state(struct zone *zone, enum zone_stat_item item) (*p)++; if (unlikely(*p > STAT_THRESHOLD)) { - zone_page_state_add(*p, zone, item); - *p = 0; + zone_page_state_add(*p + STAT_THRESHOLD / 2, zone, item); + *p = -STAT_THRESHOLD / 2; } } @@ -209,8 +209,8 @@ void __dec_zone_page_state(struct page *page, enum zone_stat_item item) (*p)--; if (unlikely(*p < -STAT_THRESHOLD)) { - zone_page_state_add(*p, zone, item); - *p = 0; + zone_page_state_add(*p - STAT_THRESHOLD / 2, zone, item); + *p = STAT_THRESHOLD /2; } } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__dec_zone_page_state); @@ -239,19 +239,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(inc_zone_page_state); void dec_zone_page_state(struct page *page, enum zone_stat_item item) { unsigned long flags; - struct zone *zone; - s8 *p; - zone = page_zone(page); local_irq_save(flags); - p = diff_pointer(zone, item); - - (*p)--; - - if (unlikely(*p < -STAT_THRESHOLD)) { - zone_page_state_add(*p, zone, item); - *p = 0; - } + __dec_zone_page_state(page, item); local_irq_restore(flags); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(dec_zone_page_state); -- 2.39.5