Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | | From | Minchan Kim <> | | Subject | [PATCH 2/2] Filter unevictable page out in deactivate_page | | Date | Mon, 2 May 2011 00:03:31 +0900 |
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It's pointless that deactive_page's pagevec operation about unevictable page as it's nop. This patch removes unnecessary overhead which might be a bit problem in case that there are many unevictable page in system(ex, mprotect workload)
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> --- mm/swap.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c index 2e9656d..b707694 100644 --- a/mm/swap.c +++ b/mm/swap.c @@ -511,6 +511,15 @@ static void drain_cpu_pagevecs(int cpu) */ void deactivate_page(struct page *page) { + + /* + * In workload which system has many unevictable page(ex, mprotect), + * unevictalge page deactivation for accelerating reclaim + * is pointless. + */ + if (PageUnevictable(page)) + return; + if (likely(get_page_unless_zero(page))) { struct pagevec *pvec = &get_cpu_var(lru_deactivate_pvecs); -- 1.7.1
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