mm/vmstat: defer the refresh_zone_stat_thresholds after all CPUs bringup

refresh_zone_stat_thresholds function has two loops which is expensive for
higher number of CPUs and NUMA nodes.

Below is the rough estimation of total iterations done by these loops
based on number of NUMA and CPUs.

Total number of iterations: nCPU * 2 * Numa * mCPU
Where:
 nCPU = total number of CPUs
 Numa = total number of NUMA nodes
 mCPU = mean value of total CPUs (e.g., 512 for 1024 total CPUs)

For the system under test with 16 NUMA nodes and 1024 CPUs, this results
in a substantial increase in the number of loop iterations during boot-up
when NUMA is enabled:

No NUMA = 1024*2*1*512  =   1,048,576 : Here refresh_zone_stat_thresholds
takes around 224 ms total for all the CPUs in the system under test.
16 NUMA = 1024*2*16*512 =  16,777,216 : Here refresh_zone_stat_thresholds
takes around 4.5 seconds total for all the CPUs in the system under test.

Calling this for each CPU is expensive when there are large number of CPUs
along with multiple NUMAs.  Fix this by deferring
refresh_zone_stat_thresholds to be called later at once when all the
secondary CPUs are up.  Also, register the DYN hooks to keep the existing
hotplug functionality intact.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1723443220-20623-1-git-send-email-ssengar@linux.microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Saurabh Sengar <ssengar@linux.microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (Microsoft) <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>
Cc: Saurabh Singh Sengar <ssengar@microsoft.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 1917c034c045b8adf7e552237b8b3b3dec7239f5..7b62bfb19afabd9d5285166a878b32acf24237d6 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -1933,6 +1933,7 @@ static const struct seq_operations vmstat_op = {
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct delayed_work, vmstat_work);
 int sysctl_stat_interval __read_mostly = HZ;
+static int vmstat_late_init_done;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
 static void refresh_vm_stats(struct work_struct *work)
@@ -2135,7 +2136,8 @@ static void __init init_cpu_node_state(void)
 
 static int vmstat_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu)
 {
-       refresh_zone_stat_thresholds();
+       if (vmstat_late_init_done)
+               refresh_zone_stat_thresholds();
 
        if (!node_state(cpu_to_node(cpu), N_CPU)) {
                node_set_state(cpu_to_node(cpu), N_CPU);
@@ -2167,6 +2169,14 @@ static int vmstat_cpu_dead(unsigned int cpu)
        return 0;
 }
 
+static int __init vmstat_late_init(void)
+{
+       refresh_zone_stat_thresholds();
+       vmstat_late_init_done = 1;
+
+       return 0;
+}
+late_initcall(vmstat_late_init);
 #endif
 
 struct workqueue_struct *mm_percpu_wq;