Using per cpu atomics for the vm statistics reduces their overhead.
And in the case of x86 we are guaranteed that they will never race even
in the lax form used for vm statistics.
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
---
include/linux/vmstat.h | 10 ++++------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/vmstat.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/vmstat.h 2009-08-14 10:07:18.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/vmstat.h 2009-09-01 14:59:22.000000000 -0500
@@ -76,24 +76,22 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct vm_event_state, v
static inline void __count_vm_event(enum vm_event_item item)
{
- __get_cpu_var(vm_event_states).event[item]++;
+ __this_cpu_inc(per_cpu_var(vm_event_states).event[item]);
}
static inline void count_vm_event(enum vm_event_item item)
{
- get_cpu_var(vm_event_states).event[item]++;
- put_cpu();
+ this_cpu_inc(per_cpu_var(vm_event_states).event[item]);
}
static inline void __count_vm_events(enum vm_event_item item, long delta)
{
- __get_cpu_var(vm_event_states).event[item] += delta;
+ __this_cpu_add(per_cpu_var(vm_event_states).event[item], delta);
}
static inline void count_vm_events(enum vm_event_item item, long delta)
{
- get_cpu_var(vm_event_states).event[item] += delta;
- put_cpu();
+ this_cpu_add(per_cpu_var(vm_event_states).event[item], delta);
}
extern void all_vm_events(unsigned long *);
--