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| author | Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> | 2011-11-01 01:07:03 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-11-01 01:30:45 +0100 |
| commit | 3da367c3e5fca71d4e778fa565d9b098d5518f4a (patch) | |
| tree | 915dff1989bdffaed157b56f724631b5d8f2d328 /mm | |
| parent | radix_tree: clean away saw_unset_tag leftovers (diff) | |
| download | linux-3da367c3e5fca71d4e778fa565d9b098d5518f4a.tar.xz linux-3da367c3e5fca71d4e778fa565d9b098d5518f4a.zip | |
vmscan: add block plug for page reclaim
per-task block plug can reduce block queue lock contention and increase
request merge. Currently page reclaim doesn't support it. I originally
thought page reclaim doesn't need it, because kswapd thread count is
limited and file cache write is done at flusher mostly.
When I test a workload with heavy swap in a 4-node machine, each CPU is
doing direct page reclaim and swap. This causes block queue lock
contention. In my test, without below patch, the CPU utilization is about
2% ~ 7%. With the patch, the CPU utilization is about 1% ~ 3%. Disk
throughput isn't changed. This should improve normal kswapd write and
file cache write too (increase request merge for example), but might not
be so obvious as I explain above.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index b68a9342d5a3..b1520b077858 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2005,12 +2005,14 @@ static void shrink_zone(int priority, struct zone *zone, enum lru_list l; unsigned long nr_reclaimed, nr_scanned; unsigned long nr_to_reclaim = sc->nr_to_reclaim; + struct blk_plug plug; restart: nr_reclaimed = 0; nr_scanned = sc->nr_scanned; get_scan_count(zone, sc, nr, priority); + blk_start_plug(&plug); while (nr[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON] || nr[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE] || nr[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE]) { for_each_evictable_lru(l) { @@ -2034,6 +2036,7 @@ restart: if (nr_reclaimed >= nr_to_reclaim && priority < DEF_PRIORITY) break; } + blk_finish_plug(&plug); sc->nr_reclaimed += nr_reclaimed; /* |