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per-task block plug can reduce block queue lock contention and increase
authorShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Wed, 3 Aug 2011 00:52:50 +0000 (10:52 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:50:39 +0000 (11:50 +1000)
commit1dc0eb1331fb820830a375b7073aa46551c359cc
tree2f11c65d4c6c976081840dd79585c8ae6b73393c
parent0929814ba7aeb94684a748a09cdca5e97525dcda
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