kernel-fxtec-pro1x/mm
Christoph Lameter d1187ed210 vmstat: use our own timer events
vmstat is currently using the cache reaper to periodically bring the
statistics up to date.  The cache reaper does only exists in SLUB as a way to
provide compatibility with SLAB.  This patch removes the vmstat calls from the
slab allocators and provides its own handling.

The advantage is also that we can use a different frequency for the updates.
Refreshing vm stats is a pretty fast job so we can run this every second and
stagger this by only one tick.  This will lead to some overlap in large
systems.  F.e a system running at 250 HZ with 1024 processors will have 4 vm
updates occurring at once.

However, the vm stats update only accesses per node information.  It is only
necessary to stagger the vm statistics updates per processor in each node.  Vm
counter updates occurring on distant nodes will not cause cacheline
contention.

We could implement an alternate approach that runs the first processor on each
node at the second and then each of the other processor on a node on a
subsequent tick.  That may be useful to keep a large amount of the second free
of timer activity.  Maybe the timer folks will have some feedback on this one?

[jirislaby@gmail.com: add missing break]
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
..
allocpercpu.c [PATCH] Allow NULL pointers in percpu_free 2006-12-07 08:39:22 -08:00
backing-dev.c [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control 2007-03-16 19:25:05 -07:00
bootmem.c [PATCH] remove EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL'ed symbols 2006-12-07 08:39:44 -08:00
bounce.c block: blk_max_pfn is somtimes wrong 2007-03-27 08:52:47 +02:00
fadvise.c [PATCH] mm: change uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to use f_path 2006-12-08 08:28:43 -08:00
filemap.c AFS: export a couple of core functions for AFS write support 2007-05-09 12:30:50 -07:00
filemap.h
filemap_xip.c fs: convert core functions to zero_user_page 2007-05-09 12:30:55 -07:00
fremap.c [PATCH] mm: more rmap debugging 2006-12-22 08:55:49 -08:00
highmem.c [PATCH] i386: PARAVIRT: add kmap_atomic_pte for mapping highpte pages 2007-05-02 19:27:15 +02:00
hugetlb.c pretend cpuset has some form of hugetlb page reservation 2007-05-09 12:30:49 -07:00
internal.h Make page->private usable in compound pages 2007-05-07 12:12:53 -07:00
Kconfig Quicklists for page table pages 2007-05-07 12:12:54 -07:00
madvise.c mm: madvise avoid exclusive mmap_sem 2007-05-07 12:12:54 -07:00
Makefile Quicklists for page table pages 2007-05-07 12:12:54 -07:00
memory.c Add unitialized_var() macro for suppressing gcc warnings 2007-05-07 12:12:52 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c [PATCH] Fix sparsemem on Cell 2007-01-11 18:18:20 -08:00
mempolicy.c [PATCH] Page migration: Fix vma flag checking 2007-03-05 07:57:51 -08:00
mempool.c [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files. 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
migrate.c page migration: fix NR_FILE_PAGES accounting 2007-04-24 08:23:08 -07:00
mincore.c [PATCH] mincore: vma crossing fix 2007-02-15 09:57:03 -08:00
mlock.c [PATCH] mlock cleanup 2006-12-07 08:39:22 -08:00
mmap.c Remove unused variable in get_unmapped_area 2007-05-08 11:35:28 -07:00
mmzone.c [PATCH] remove EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL'ed symbols 2006-12-07 08:39:44 -08:00
mprotect.c
mremap.c [PATCH] mm: mremap correct rmap accounting 2007-01-30 08:33:32 -08:00
msync.c
nommu.c move die notifier handling to common code 2007-05-08 11:15:04 -07:00
oom_kill.c oom: fix constraint deadlock 2007-05-07 12:12:55 -07:00
page-writeback.c Factor outstanding I/O error handling 2007-05-08 11:14:57 -07:00
page_alloc.c Add suspend-related notifications for CPU hotplug 2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
page_io.c [PATCH] swsusp: use block device offsets to identify swap locations 2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
pdflush.c [PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h 2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c Quicklists for page table pages 2007-05-07 12:12:54 -07:00
readahead.c readahead: code cleanup 2007-05-07 12:12:52 -07:00
rmap.c fbdev: mm: Deferred IO support 2007-05-08 11:15:26 -07:00
shmem.c slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag 2007-05-07 12:12:57 -07:00
shmem_acl.c [PATCH] Fix typos in mm/shmem_acl.c 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
slab.c vmstat: use our own timer events 2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
slob.c slob: fix page order calculation on not 4KB page 2007-05-07 12:12:57 -07:00
slub.c vmstat: use our own timer events 2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
sparse.c Add white list into modpost.c for memory hotplug code and ia64's machvec section 2007-05-08 11:14:57 -07:00
swap.c Add suspend-related notifications for CPU hotplug 2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
swap_state.c
swapfile.c mm: make read_cache_page synchronous 2007-05-07 12:12:51 -07:00
thrash.c [PATCH] make mm/thrash.c:global_faults static 2006-12-07 08:39:22 -08:00
tiny-shmem.c [PATCH] mm/{,tiny-}shmem.c cleanups 2007-03-01 14:53:35 -08:00
truncate.c fs: convert core functions to zero_user_page 2007-05-09 12:30:55 -07:00
util.c [PATCH] slab: clean up leak tracking ifdefs a little bit 2006-10-04 07:55:13 -07:00
vmalloc.c move die notifier handling to common code 2007-05-08 11:15:04 -07:00
vmscan.c Add suspend-related notifications for CPU hotplug 2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
vmstat.c vmstat: use our own timer events 2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00