+ mm-pagevec-release-reacquire-lru_lock-on-pgdat-change.patch added to -mm tree

+ mm-pagevec-release-reacquire-lru_lock-on-pgdat-change.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm, pagevec: release/reacquire lru_lock on pgdat change
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     mm-pagevec-release-reacquire-lru_lock-on-pgdat-change.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-pagevec-release-reacquire-lru_lock-on-pgdat-change.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-pagevec-release-reacquire-lru_lock-on-pgdat-change.patch

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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Subject: 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.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468588165-12461-4-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/swap.c |   20 ++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff -puN mm/swap.c~mm-pagevec-release-reacquire-lru_lock-on-pgdat-change mm/swap.c
--- a/mm/swap.c~mm-pagevec-release-reacquire-lru_lock-on-pgdat-change
+++ a/mm/swap.c
@@ -179,26 +179,26 @@ static void pagevec_lru_move_fn(struct p
 	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);
 }
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from mgorman@techsingularity.net are

mm-meminit-remove-early_page_nid_uninitialised.patch
mm-vmstat-add-infrastructure-for-per-node-vmstats.patch
mm-vmscan-move-lru_lock-to-the-node.patch
mm-vmscan-move-lru-lists-to-node.patch
mm-mmzone-clarify-the-usage-of-zone-padding.patch
mm-vmscan-begin-reclaiming-pages-on-a-per-node-basis.patch
mm-vmscan-have-kswapd-only-scan-based-on-the-highest-requested-zone.patch
mm-vmscan-make-kswapd-reclaim-in-terms-of-nodes.patch
mm-vmscan-remove-balance-gap.patch
mm-vmscan-simplify-the-logic-deciding-whether-kswapd-sleeps.patch
mm-vmscan-by-default-have-direct-reclaim-only-shrink-once-per-node.patch
mm-vmscan-remove-duplicate-logic-clearing-node-congestion-and-dirty-state.patch
mm-vmscan-do-not-reclaim-from-kswapd-if-there-is-any-eligible-zone.patch
mm-vmscan-make-shrink_node-decisions-more-node-centric.patch
mm-vmscan-make-shrink_node-decisions-more-node-centric-fix.patch
mm-memcg-move-memcg-limit-enforcement-from-zones-to-nodes.patch
mm-workingset-make-working-set-detection-node-aware.patch
mm-page_alloc-consider-dirtyable-memory-in-terms-of-nodes.patch
mm-move-page-mapped-accounting-to-the-node.patch
mm-rename-nr_anon_pages-to-nr_anon_mapped.patch
mm-move-most-file-based-accounting-to-the-node.patch
mm-move-most-file-based-accounting-to-the-node-fix.patch
mm-move-vmscan-writes-and-file-write-accounting-to-the-node.patch
mm-vmscan-only-wakeup-kswapd-once-per-node-for-the-requested-classzone.patch
mm-page_alloc-wake-kswapd-based-on-the-highest-eligible-zone.patch
mm-convert-zone_reclaim-to-node_reclaim.patch
mm-vmscan-avoid-passing-in-classzone_idx-unnecessarily-to-shrink_node.patch
mm-vmscan-avoid-passing-in-classzone_idx-unnecessarily-to-compaction_ready.patch
mm-vmscan-avoid-passing-in-classzone_idx-unnecessarily-to-compaction_ready-fix.patch
mm-vmscan-avoid-passing-in-remaining-unnecessarily-to-prepare_kswapd_sleep.patch
mm-vmscan-have-kswapd-reclaim-from-all-zones-if-reclaiming-and-buffer_heads_over_limit.patch
mm-vmscan-have-kswapd-reclaim-from-all-zones-if-reclaiming-and-buffer_heads_over_limit-fix.patch
mm-vmscan-add-classzone-information-to-tracepoints.patch
mm-page_alloc-remove-fair-zone-allocation-policy.patch
mm-page_alloc-cache-the-last-node-whose-dirty-limit-is-reached.patch
mm-vmstat-replace-__count_zone_vm_events-with-a-zone-id-equivalent.patch
mm-vmstat-account-per-zone-stalls-and-pages-skipped-during-reclaim.patch
mm-vmstat-account-per-zone-stalls-and-pages-skipped-during-reclaim-fix.patch
mm-vmstat-print-node-based-stats-in-zoneinfo-file.patch
mm-vmstat-remove-zone-and-node-double-accounting-by-approximating-retries.patch
mm-pagevec-release-reacquire-lru_lock-on-pgdat-change.patch