On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 09:13:05AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > 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: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
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