linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/5] mm, pagevec: Release/reacquire lru

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Date:	Fri, 15 Jul 2016 14:09:23 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] mm, pagevec: Release/reacquire lru_lock on pgdat change

With node-lru, the locking is based on the pgdat. Previously it was
required that a pagevec drain released one zone lru_lock and acquired
another zone lru_lock on every zone change. Now, it's only necessary if
the node changes. The end-result is fewer lock release/acquires if the
pages are all on the same node but in different zones.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
---
 mm/swap.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
index 77af473635fe..75c63bb2a1da 100644
--- a/mm/swap.c
+++ b/mm/swap.c
@@ -179,26 +179,26 @@ static void pagevec_lru_move_fn(struct pagevec *pvec,
 	void *arg)
 {
 	int i;
-	struct zone *zone = NULL;
+	struct pglist_data *pgdat = NULL;
 	struct lruvec *lruvec;
 	unsigned long flags = 0;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < pagevec_count(pvec); i++) {
 		struct page *page = pvec->pages[i];
-		struct zone *pagezone = page_zone(page);
+		struct pglist_data *pagepgdat = page_pgdat(page);
 
-		if (pagezone != zone) {
-			if (zone)
-				spin_unlock_irqrestore(zone_lru_lock(zone), flags);
-			zone = pagezone;
-			spin_lock_irqsave(zone_lru_lock(zone), flags);
+		if (pagepgdat != pgdat) {
+			if (pgdat)
+				spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgdat->lru_lock, flags);
+			pgdat = pagepgdat;
+			spin_lock_irqsave(&pgdat->lru_lock, flags);
 		}
 
-		lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, zone->zone_pgdat);
+		lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, pgdat);
 		(*move_fn)(page, lruvec, arg);
 	}
-	if (zone)
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(zone_lru_lock(zone), flags);
+	if (pgdat)
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgdat->lru_lock, flags);
 	release_pages(pvec->pages, pvec->nr, pvec->cold);
 	pagevec_reinit(pvec);
 }
-- 
2.6.4