From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:50:10 +0000 (+1000)
Subject: vmscan: use atomic-long for shrinker batching
X-Git-Tag: next-20110929~2^2~172
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=31034c6fbad74d6c5bb887cffc09ae993ac3adba;p=karo-tx-linux.git

vmscan: use atomic-long for shrinker batching

Use atomic-long operations instead of looping around cmpxchg().

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <>
---

diff --git a/include/linux/shrinker.h b/include/linux/shrinker.h
index 790651b4e5ba..ac6b8ee07825 100644
--- a/include/linux/shrinker.h
+++ b/include/linux/shrinker.h
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ struct shrinker {
 
 	/* These are for internal use */
 	struct list_head list;
-	long nr;	/* objs pending delete */
+	atomic_long_t nr_in_batch; /* objs pending delete */
 };
 #define DEFAULT_SEEKS 2 /* A good number if you don't know better. */
 extern void register_shrinker(struct shrinker *);
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index de18aaeb25cc..f9b964cb7c17 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ static unsigned long zone_nr_lru_pages(struct zone *zone,
  */
 void register_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
 {
-	shrinker->nr = 0;
+	atomic_long_set(&shrinker->nr_in_batch, 0);
 	down_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
 	list_add_tail(&shrinker->list, &shrinker_list);
 	up_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
@@ -264,9 +264,7 @@ unsigned long shrink_slab(struct shrink_control *shrink,
 		 * and zero it so that other concurrent shrinker invocations
 		 * don't also do this scanning work.
 		 */
-		do {
-			nr = shrinker->nr;
-		} while (cmpxchg(&shrinker->nr, nr, 0) != nr);
+		nr = atomic_long_xchg(&shrinker->nr_in_batch, 0);
 
 		total_scan = nr;
 		delta = (4 * nr_pages_scanned) / shrinker->seeks;
@@ -328,12 +326,11 @@ unsigned long shrink_slab(struct shrink_control *shrink,
 		 * manner that handles concurrent updates. If we exhausted the
 		 * scan, there is no need to do an update.
 		 */
-		do {
-			nr = shrinker->nr;
-			new_nr = total_scan + nr;
-			if (total_scan <= 0)
-				break;
-		} while (cmpxchg(&shrinker->nr, nr, new_nr) != nr);
+		if (total_scan > 0)
+			new_nr = atomic_long_add_return(total_scan,
+					&shrinker->nr_in_batch);
+		else
+			new_nr = atomic_long_read(&shrinker->nr_in_batch);
 
 		trace_mm_shrink_slab_end(shrinker, shrink_ret, nr, new_nr);
 	}