Move remote node draining out of slab allocators

Currently the slab allocators contain callbacks into the page allocator to
perform the draining of pagesets on remote nodes.  This requires SLUB to have
a whole subsystem in order to be compatible with SLAB.  Moving node draining
out of the slab allocators avoids a section of code in SLUB.

Move the node draining so that is is done when the vm statistics are updated.
At that point we are already touching all the cachelines with the pagesets of
a processor.

Add a expire counter there.  If we have to update per zone or global vm
statistics then assume that the pageset will require subsequent draining.

The expire counter will be decremented on each vm stats update pass until it
reaches zero.  Then we will drain one batch from the pageset.  The draining
will cause vm counter updates which will then cause another expiration until
the pcp is empty.  So we will drain a batch every 3 seconds.

Note that remote node draining is a somewhat esoteric feature that is required
on large NUMA systems because otherwise significant portions of system memory
can become trapped in pcp queues.  The number of pcp is determined by the
number of processors and nodes in a system.  A system with 4 processors and 2
nodes has 8 pcps which is okay.  But a system with 1024 processors and 512
nodes has 512k pcps with a high potential for large amount of memory being
caught in them.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index e50908b2bfac..944b20581f8c 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -928,12 +928,6 @@ static void next_reap_node(void)
 {
 	int node = __get_cpu_var(reap_node);
 
-	/*
-	 * Also drain per cpu pages on remote zones
-	 */
-	if (node != numa_node_id())
-		drain_node_pages(node);
-
 	node = next_node(node, node_online_map);
 	if (unlikely(node >= MAX_NUMNODES))
 		node = first_node(node_online_map);