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    mm: move zone->pages_scanned into a vmstat counter · 0d5d823a
    Mel Gorman authored
    
    
    zone->pages_scanned is a write-intensive cache line during page reclaim
    and it's also updated during page free.  Move the counter into vmstat to
    take advantage of the per-cpu updates and do not update it in the free
    paths unless necessary.
    
    On a small UMA machine running tiobench the difference is marginal.  On
    a 4-node machine the overhead is more noticable.  Note that automatic
    NUMA balancing was disabled for this test as otherwise the system CPU
    overhead is unpredictable.
    
              3.16.0-rc3  3.16.0-rc3  3.16.0-rc3
                 vanillarearrange-v5   vmstat-v5
    User          746.94      759.78      774.56
    System      65336.22    58350.98    32847.27
    Elapsed     27553.52    27282.02    27415.04
    
    Note that the overhead reduction will vary depending on where exactly
    pages are allocated and freed.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
    Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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