[PATCH 5/6] mm/page_alloc: Batch the accounting updates in the bulk allocator

[Mel Gorman]

Now that the zone_statistics are a simple counter that does not require
special protection, the bulk allocator accounting updates can be
batch updated without requiring IRQs to be disabled.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/vmstat.h |  8 ++++++++
 mm/page_alloc.c        | 30 +++++++++++++-----------------
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/vmstat.h b/include/linux/vmstat.h
index dde4dec4e7dd..8473b8fa9756 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmstat.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmstat.h
@@ -246,6 +246,14 @@ __count_numa_event(struct zone *zone, enum numa_stat_item item)
 	raw_cpu_inc(pzstats->vm_numa_event[item]);
 }
 
+static inline void
+__count_numa_events(struct zone *zone, enum numa_stat_item item, long delta)
+{
+	struct per_cpu_zonestat __percpu *pzstats = zone->per_cpu_zonestats;
+
+	raw_cpu_add(pzstats->vm_numa_event[item], delta);
+}
+
 extern void __count_numa_event(struct zone *zone, enum numa_stat_item item);
 extern unsigned long sum_zone_node_page_state(int node,
 					      enum zone_stat_item item);
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 7eb48632bcac..32c64839c145 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3398,7 +3398,8 @@ void __putback_isolated_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order, int mt)
  *
  * Must be called with interrupts disabled.
  */
-static inline void zone_statistics(struct zone *preferred_zone, struct zone *z)
+static inline void zone_statistics(struct zone *preferred_zone, struct zone *z,
+				   long nr_account)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 	enum numa_stat_item local_stat = NUMA_LOCAL;
@@ -3411,12 +3412,12 @@ static inline void zone_statistics(struct zone *preferred_zone, struct zone *z)
 		local_stat = NUMA_OTHER;
 
 	if (zone_to_nid(z) == zone_to_nid(preferred_zone))
-		__count_numa_event(z, NUMA_HIT);
+		__count_numa_events(z, NUMA_HIT, nr_account);
 	else {
-		__count_numa_event(z, NUMA_MISS);
-		__count_numa_event(preferred_zone, NUMA_FOREIGN);
+		__count_numa_events(z, NUMA_MISS, nr_account);
+		__count_numa_events(preferred_zone, NUMA_FOREIGN, nr_account);
 	}
-	__count_numa_event(z, local_stat);
+	__count_numa_events(z, local_stat, nr_account);
 #endif
 }
 
@@ -3462,7 +3463,7 @@ static struct page *rmqueue_pcplist(struct zone *preferred_zone,
 	page = __rmqueue_pcplist(zone,  migratetype, alloc_flags, pcp, list);
 	if (page) {
 		__count_zid_vm_events(PGALLOC, page_zonenum(page), 1);
-		zone_statistics(preferred_zone, zone);
+		zone_statistics(preferred_zone, zone, 1);
 	}
 	local_unlock_irqrestore(&pagesets.lock, flags);
 	return page;
@@ -3523,7 +3524,7 @@ struct page *rmqueue(struct zone *preferred_zone,
 				  get_pcppage_migratetype(page));
 
 	__count_zid_vm_events(PGALLOC, page_zonenum(page), 1 << order);
-	zone_statistics(preferred_zone, zone);
+	zone_statistics(preferred_zone, zone, 1);
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 
 out:
@@ -5006,7 +5007,7 @@ unsigned long __alloc_pages_bulk(gfp_t gfp, int preferred_nid,
 	struct alloc_context ac;
 	gfp_t alloc_gfp;
 	unsigned int alloc_flags;
-	int nr_populated = 0;
+	int nr_populated = 0, nr_account = 0;
 
 	if (unlikely(nr_pages <= 0))
 		return 0;
@@ -5079,15 +5080,7 @@ unsigned long __alloc_pages_bulk(gfp_t gfp, int preferred_nid,
 				goto failed_irq;
 			break;
 		}
-
-		/*
-		 * Ideally this would be batched but the best way to do
-		 * that cheaply is to first convert zone_statistics to
-		 * be inaccurate per-cpu counter like vm_events to avoid
-		 * a RMW cycle then do the accounting with IRQs enabled.
-		 */
-		__count_zid_vm_events(PGALLOC, zone_idx(zone), 1);
-		zone_statistics(ac.preferred_zoneref->zone, zone);
+		nr_account++;
 
 		prep_new_page(page, 0, gfp, 0);
 		if (page_list)
@@ -5097,6 +5090,9 @@ unsigned long __alloc_pages_bulk(gfp_t gfp, int preferred_nid,
 		nr_populated++;
 	}
 
+	__count_zid_vm_events(PGALLOC, zone_idx(zone), nr_account);
+	zone_statistics(ac.preferred_zoneref->zone, zone, nr_account);
+
 	local_unlock_irqrestore(&pagesets.lock, flags);
 
 	return nr_populated;
-- 
2.26.2