vmstat: create separate function to fold per cpu diffs into local counters

The main idea behind this patchset is to reduce the vmstat update overhead
by avoiding interrupt enable/disable and the use of per cpu atomics.

This patch (of 3):

It is better to have a separate folding function because
refresh_cpu_vm_stats() also does other things like expire pages in the
page allocator caches.

If we have a separate function then refresh_cpu_vm_stats() is only called
from the local cpu which allows additional optimizations.

The folding function is only called when a cpu is being downed and
therefore no other processor will be accessing the counters.  Also
simplifies synchronization.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix UP build]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 42c5930..f885eb8 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5435,7 +5435,7 @@ static int page_alloc_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
 		 * This is only okay since the processor is dead and cannot
 		 * race with what we are doing.
 		 */
-		refresh_cpu_vm_stats(cpu);
+		cpu_vm_stats_fold(cpu);
 	}
 	return NOTIFY_OK;
 }