From 1c5e9c27cbd966c7f0038698d5dcd5ada3574f47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:50:59 -0800 Subject: mm: numa: limit scope of lock for NUMA migrate rate limiting NUMA migrate rate limiting protects a migration counter and window using a lock but in some cases this can be a contended lock. It is not critical that the number of pages be perfect, lost updates are acceptable. Reduce the importance of this lock. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Alex Thorlton Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/migrate.c | 21 ++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/migrate.c') diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c index 41eba21f10ba..4612bb2e3677 100644 --- a/mm/migrate.c +++ b/mm/migrate.c @@ -1602,26 +1602,29 @@ bool migrate_ratelimited(int node) static bool numamigrate_update_ratelimit(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long nr_pages) { - bool rate_limited = false; - /* * Rate-limit the amount of data that is being migrated to a node. * Optimal placement is no good if the memory bus is saturated and * all the time is being spent migrating! */ - spin_lock(&pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_lock); if (time_after(jiffies, pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_next_window)) { + spin_lock(&pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_lock); pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_nr_pages = 0; pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_next_window = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(migrate_interval_millisecs); + spin_unlock(&pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_lock); } if (pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_nr_pages > ratelimit_pages) - rate_limited = true; - else - pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_nr_pages += nr_pages; - spin_unlock(&pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_lock); - - return rate_limited; + return true; + + /* + * This is an unlocked non-atomic update so errors are possible. + * The consequences are failing to migrate when we potentiall should + * have which is not severe enough to warrant locking. If it is ever + * a problem, it can be converted to a per-cpu counter. + */ + pgdat->numabalancing_migrate_nr_pages += nr_pages; + return false; } static int numamigrate_isolate_page(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct page *page) -- cgit v1.2.3