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Subject[PATCH] Do not disable interrupts when reading min_free_kbytes
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The sysctl handler for min_free_kbytes calls setup_per_zone_pages_min()
on read or write. This function iterates through every zone and calls
spin_lock_irqsave() on the zone LRU lock. When reading min_free_kbytes, this
is a total waste of time that disables interrupts on the local processor. It
might even be noticable machines with large numbers of zones if a process
started constantly reading min_free_kbytes.

This patch only calls setup_per_zone_pages_min() only on write. Tested on
an x86 laptop and it did the right thing.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
---

page_alloc.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -rup -X /usr/src/patchset-0.6/bin//dontdiff linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1-norsdl/mm/page_alloc.c linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1-nodisable_on_read_minfree/mm/page_alloc.c
--- linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1-norsdl/mm/page_alloc.c 2007-03-26 09:56:32.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1-nodisable_on_read_minfree/mm/page_alloc.c 2007-03-26 10:39:46.000000000 +0100
@@ -3956,7 +3956,8 @@ int min_free_kbytes_sysctl_handler(ctl_t
struct file *file, void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
{
proc_dointvec(table, write, file, buffer, length, ppos);
- setup_per_zone_pages_min();
+ if (write)
+ setup_per_zone_pages_min();
return 0;
}

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