linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm/swap: piggyback lru_add_drain

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Message-ID: <157018386639.6110.3058050375244904201.stgit@buzz>
Date:   Fri, 04 Oct 2019 13:11:06 +0300
From:   Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm/swap: piggyback lru_add_drain_all() calls

This is very slow operation. There is no reason to do it again if somebody
else already drained all per-cpu vectors after we waited for lock.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
---
 mm/swap.c |   13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
index 38c3fa4308e2..6203918e1316 100644
--- a/mm/swap.c
+++ b/mm/swap.c
@@ -708,9 +708,10 @@ static void lru_add_drain_per_cpu(struct work_struct *dummy)
  */
 void lru_add_drain_all(void)
 {
+	static seqcount_t seqcount = SEQCNT_ZERO(seqcount);
 	static DEFINE_MUTEX(lock);
 	static struct cpumask has_work;
-	int cpu;
+	int cpu, seq;
 
 	/*
 	 * Make sure nobody triggers this path before mm_percpu_wq is fully
@@ -719,7 +720,16 @@ void lru_add_drain_all(void)
 	if (WARN_ON(!mm_percpu_wq))
 		return;
 
+	seq = raw_read_seqcount_latch(&seqcount);
+
 	mutex_lock(&lock);
+
+	/* Piggyback on drain done by somebody else. */
+	if (__read_seqcount_retry(&seqcount, seq))
+		goto done;
+
+	raw_write_seqcount_latch(&seqcount);
+
 	cpumask_clear(&has_work);
 
 	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
@@ -740,6 +750,7 @@ void lru_add_drain_all(void)
 	for_each_cpu(cpu, &has_work)
 		flush_work(&per_cpu(lru_add_drain_work, cpu));
 
+done:
 	mutex_unlock(&lock);
 }
 #else