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per-task block plug can reduce block queue lock contention and increase
authorShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:46:48 +0000 (09:46 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:27:16 +0000 (15:27 +1000)
commitab4b765df34240eaf41910fbfe3f754f1fa66a41
tree5aaed678d8adf9c6683ac1211e75e53a81be9514
parentd3d8b42f54f3af82dfaff8dc0c26454b5cf1626c
per-task block plug can reduce block queue lock contention and increase
request merge.  Currently page reclaim doesn't support it.  I originally
thought page reclaim doesn't need it, because kswapd thread count is
limited and file cache write is done at flusher mostly.

When I test a workload with heavy swap in a 4-node machine, each CPU is
doing direct page reclaim and swap.  This causes block queue lock
contention.  In my test, without below patch, the CPU utilization is about
2% ~ 7%.  With the patch, the CPU utilization is about 1% ~ 3%.  Disk
throughput isn't changed.  This should improve normal kswapd write and
file cache write too (increase request merge for example), but might not
be so obvious as I explain above.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmscan.c