vmstat: create separate function to fold per cpu diffs into local counters

The main idea behind this patchset is to reduce the vmstat update overhead
by avoiding interrupt enable/disable and the use of per cpu atomics.

This patch (of 3):

It is better to have a separate folding function because
refresh_cpu_vm_stats() also does other things like expire pages in the
page allocator caches.

If we have a separate function then refresh_cpu_vm_stats() is only called
from the local cpu which allows additional optimizations.

The folding function is only called when a cpu is being downed and
therefore no other processor will be accessing the counters.  Also
simplifies synchronization.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix UP build]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 35 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 42c59300bacd..f885eb827159 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5435,7 +5435,7 @@ static int page_alloc_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
                  * This is only okay since the processor is dead and cannot
                  * race with what we are doing.
                  */
-                refresh_cpu_vm_stats(cpu);
+                cpu_vm_stats_fold(cpu);
         }
         return NOTIFY_OK;
 }
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 8a8da1f9b044..aaee66330e01 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -415,11 +415,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dec_zone_page_state);
 #endif
 
 /*
- * Update the zone counters for one cpu.
- *
- * The cpu specified must be either the current cpu or a processor that
- * is not online. If it is the current cpu then the execution thread must
- * be pinned to the current cpu.
+ * Update the zone counters for the current cpu.
  *
  * Note that refresh_cpu_vm_stats strives to only access
  * node local memory. The per cpu pagesets on remote zones are placed
@@ -432,7 +428,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dec_zone_page_state);
  * with the global counters. These could cause remote node cache line
  * bouncing and will have to be only done when necessary.
  */
-void refresh_cpu_vm_stats(int cpu)
+static void refresh_cpu_vm_stats(int cpu)
 {
         struct zone *zone;
         int i;
@@ -494,6 +490,38 @@ void refresh_cpu_vm_stats(int cpu)
 }
 
 /*
+ * Fold the data for an offline cpu into the global array.
+ * There cannot be any access by the offline cpu and therefore
+ * synchronization is simplified.
+ */
+void cpu_vm_stats_fold(int cpu)
+{
+        struct zone *zone;
+        int i;
+        int global_diff[NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS] = { 0, };
+
+        for_each_populated_zone(zone) {
+                struct per_cpu_pageset *p;
+
+                p = per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu);
+
+                for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS; i++)
+                        if (p->vm_stat_diff[i]) {
+                                int v;
+
+                                v = p->vm_stat_diff[i];
+                                p->vm_stat_diff[i] = 0;
+                                atomic_long_add(v, &zone->vm_stat[i]);
+                                global_diff[i] += v;
+                        }
+        }
+
+        for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS; i++)
+                if (global_diff[i])
+                        atomic_long_add(global_diff[i], &vm_stat[i]);
+}
+
+/*
  * this is only called if !populated_zone(zone), which implies no other users of
  * pset->vm_stat_diff[] exsist.
  */