this_cpu: Page allocator conversion

Use the per cpu allocator functionality to avoid per cpu arrays in struct zone.

This drastically reduces the size of struct zone for systems with large
amounts of processors and allows placement of critical variables of struct
zone in one cacheline even on very large systems.

Another effect is that the pagesets of one processor are placed near one
another. If multiple pagesets from different zones fit into one cacheline
then additional cacheline fetches can be avoided on the hot paths when
allocating memory from multiple zones.

Bootstrap becomes simpler if we use the same scheme for UP, SMP, NUMA. #ifdefs
are reduced and we can drop the zone_pcp macro.

Hotplug handling is also simplified since cpu alloc can bring up and
shut down cpu areas for a specific cpu as a whole. So there is no need to
allocate or free individual pagesets.

V7-V8:
- Explain chicken egg dilemmna with percpu allocator.

V4-V5:
- Fix up cases where per_cpu_ptr is called before irq disable
- Integrate the bootstrap logic that was separate before.

tj: Build failure in pageset_cpuup_callback() due to missing ret
    variable fixed.

Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 30fe668c254..7874201a355 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -184,13 +184,7 @@ struct per_cpu_pageset {
         s8 stat_threshold;
         s8 vm_stat_diff[NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS];
 #endif
-} ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
-#define zone_pcp(__z, __cpu) ((__z)->pageset[(__cpu)])
-#else
-#define zone_pcp(__z, __cpu) (&(__z)->pageset[(__cpu)])
-#endif
+};
 
 #endif /* !__GENERATING_BOUNDS.H */
 
@@ -306,10 +300,8 @@ struct zone {
          */
         unsigned long           min_unmapped_pages;
         unsigned long           min_slab_pages;
-        struct per_cpu_pageset  *pageset[NR_CPUS];
-#else
-        struct per_cpu_pageset  pageset[NR_CPUS];
 #endif
+        struct per_cpu_pageset  *pageset;
         /*
          * free areas of different sizes
          */