summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/mm-vmstat-use-a-single-setter-function-and-callback-for-adjusting-percpu-thresholds.patch
blob: 058b1399aac54fafa29e755213f24ba53bd9b736 (plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
From 82e3d4969144377d13da97d511e849e8cf3e6dcc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:24:24 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] mm: vmstat: Use a single setter function and callback for adjusting percpu thresholds

reduce_pgdat_percpu_threshold() and restore_pgdat_percpu_threshold() exist
to adjust the per-cpu vmstat thresholds while kswapd is awake to avoid
errors due to counter drift.  The functions duplicate some code so this
patch replaces them with a single set_pgdat_percpu_threshold() that takes
a callback function to calculate the desired threshold as a parameter.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[the various mmotm patches updating this were rolled up. --kyle]
[[http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-vmstat-use-a-single-setter-function-and-callback-for-adjusting-percpu-thresholds-fix-set_pgdat_percpu_threshold-dont-use-for_each_online_cpu.patch]]
---
 include/linux/vmstat.h |   10 ++++++----
 mm/vmscan.c            |   19 +++++++++++++++++--
 mm/vmstat.c            |   36 +++++++-----------------------------
 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/vmstat.h b/include/linux/vmstat.h
index e4cc21c..833e676 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmstat.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmstat.h
@@ -254,8 +254,11 @@ extern void dec_zone_state(struct zone *, enum zone_stat_item);
 extern void __dec_zone_state(struct zone *, enum zone_stat_item);
 
 void refresh_cpu_vm_stats(int);
-void reduce_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pg_data_t *pgdat);
-void restore_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pg_data_t *pgdat);
+
+int calculate_pressure_threshold(struct zone *zone);
+int calculate_normal_threshold(struct zone *zone);
+void set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pg_data_t *pgdat,
+				int (*calculate_pressure)(struct zone *));
 #else /* CONFIG_SMP */
 
 /*
@@ -300,8 +303,7 @@ static inline void __dec_zone_page_state(struct page *page,
 #define dec_zone_page_state __dec_zone_page_state
 #define mod_zone_page_state __mod_zone_page_state
 
-static inline void reduce_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pg_data_t *pgdat) { }
-static inline void restore_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pg_data_t *pgdat) { }
+#define set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat, callback) { }
 
 static inline void refresh_cpu_vm_stats(int cpu) { }
 #endif
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 3e71cb1..ba39948 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2378,9 +2378,24 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
 				 */
 				if (!sleeping_prematurely(pgdat, order, remaining)) {
 					trace_mm_vmscan_kswapd_sleep(pgdat->node_id);
-					restore_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat);
+
+					/*
+					 * vmstat counters are not perfectly
+					 * accurate and the estimated value
+					 * for counters such as NR_FREE_PAGES
+					 * can deviate from the true value by
+					 * nr_online_cpus * threshold. To
+					 * avoid the zone watermarks being
+					 * breached while under pressure, we
+					 * reduce the per-cpu vmstat threshold
+					 * while kswapd is awake and restore
+					 * them before going back to sleep.
+					 */
+					set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat,
+						calculate_normal_threshold);
 					schedule();
-					reduce_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat);
+					set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat,
+						calculate_pressure_threshold);
 				} else {
 					if (remaining)
 						count_vm_event(KSWAPD_LOW_WMARK_HIT_QUICKLY);
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 4d7faeb..511c2c0 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_stat);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 
-static int calculate_pressure_threshold(struct zone *zone)
+int calculate_pressure_threshold(struct zone *zone)
 {
 	int threshold;
 	int watermark_distance;
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ static int calculate_pressure_threshold(struct zone *zone)
 	return threshold;
 }
 
-static int calculate_threshold(struct zone *zone)
+int calculate_normal_threshold(struct zone *zone)
 {
 	int threshold;
 	int mem;	/* memory in 128 MB units */
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ static void refresh_zone_stat_thresholds(void)
 	for_each_populated_zone(zone) {
 		unsigned long max_drift, tolerate_drift;
 
-		threshold = calculate_threshold(zone);
+		threshold = calculate_normal_threshold(zone);
 
 		for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
 			per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu)->stat_threshold
@@ -183,46 +183,24 @@ static void refresh_zone_stat_thresholds(void)
 	}
 }
 
-void reduce_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pg_data_t *pgdat)
+void set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pg_data_t *pgdat,
+				int (*calculate_pressure)(struct zone *))
 {
 	struct zone *zone;
 	int cpu;
 	int threshold;
 	int i;
 
-	get_online_cpus();
-	for (i = 0; i < pgdat->nr_zones; i++) {
-		zone = &pgdat->node_zones[i];
-		if (!zone->percpu_drift_mark)
-			continue;
-
-		threshold = calculate_pressure_threshold(zone);
-		for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
-			per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu)->stat_threshold
-							= threshold;
-	}
-	put_online_cpus();
-}
-
-void restore_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pg_data_t *pgdat)
-{
-	struct zone *zone;
-	int cpu;
-	int threshold;
-	int i;
-
-	get_online_cpus();
 	for (i = 0; i < pgdat->nr_zones; i++) {
 		zone = &pgdat->node_zones[i];
 		if (!zone->percpu_drift_mark)
 			continue;
 
-		threshold = calculate_threshold(zone);
-		for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
+		threshold = (*calculate_pressure)(zone);
+		for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
 			per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu)->stat_threshold
 							= threshold;
 	}
-	put_online_cpus();
 }
 
 /*
-- 
1.7.3.2