[PATCH v4 02/13] task_isolation: vmstat: add vmstat_idle function

Alex Belits abelits at marvell.com
Wed Jul 22 10:48:55 EDT 2020


From 7823be8cd3ba2e66308f334a2e47f60ba7829e0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf at mellanox.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 08:05:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 02/13] task_isolation: vmstat: add vmstat_idle function

This function checks to see if a vmstat worker is not running,
and the vmstat diffs don't require an update.  The function is
called from the task-isolation code to see if we need to
actually do some work to quiet vmstat.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf at mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Belits <abelits at marvell.com>
---
 include/linux/vmstat.h |  2 ++
 mm/vmstat.c            | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/vmstat.h b/include/linux/vmstat.h
index ded16dfd21fa..97bc9ed92036 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmstat.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmstat.h
@@ -273,6 +273,7 @@ extern void __dec_node_state(struct pglist_data *, enum node_stat_item);
 
 void quiet_vmstat(void);
 void quiet_vmstat_sync(void);
+bool vmstat_idle(void);
 void cpu_vm_stats_fold(int cpu);
 void refresh_zone_stat_thresholds(void);
 
@@ -376,6 +377,7 @@ static inline void refresh_zone_stat_thresholds(void) { }
 static inline void cpu_vm_stats_fold(int cpu) { }
 static inline void quiet_vmstat(void) { }
 static inline void quiet_vmstat_sync(void) { }
+static inline bool vmstat_idle(void) { return true; }
 
 static inline void drain_zonestat(struct zone *zone,
 			struct per_cpu_pageset *pset) { }
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 93534f8537ca..f3693ef0a958 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -1898,6 +1898,16 @@ void quiet_vmstat_sync(void)
 	refresh_cpu_vm_stats(false);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Report on whether vmstat processing is quiesced on the core currently:
+ * no vmstat worker running and no vmstat updates to perform.
+ */
+bool vmstat_idle(void)
+{
+	return !delayed_work_pending(this_cpu_ptr(&vmstat_work)) &&
+		!need_update(smp_processor_id());
+}
+
 /*
  * Shepherd worker thread that checks the
  * differentials of processors that have their worker
-- 
2.26.2



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