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| author | Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> | 2008-10-18 20:26:43 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-10-20 08:50:26 -0700 |
| commit | 89e004ea55abe201b29e2d6e35124101f1288ef7 (patch) | |
| tree | 272a8f453106fd33d66fd7153f44696648dbe8b6 /mm/shmem.c | |
| parent | ba9ddf49391645e6bb93219131a40446538a5e76 (diff) | |
| download | linux-89e004ea55abe201b29e2d6e35124101f1288ef7.tar.gz | |
SHM_LOCKED pages are unevictable
Shmem segments locked into memory via shmctl(SHM_LOCKED) should not be kept on the normal LRU, since scanning them is a waste of time and might throw off kswapd's balancing algorithms. Place them on the unevictable LRU list instead. Use the AS_UNEVICTABLE flag to mark address_space of SHM_LOCKed shared memory regions as unevictable. Then these pages will be culled off the normal LRU lists during vmscan. Add new wrapper function to clear the mapping's unevictable state when/if shared memory segment is munlocked. Add 'scan_mapping_unevictable_page()' to mm/vmscan.c to scan all pages in the shmem segment's mapping [struct address_space] for evictability now that they're no longer locked. If so, move them to the appropriate zone lru list. Changes depend on [CONFIG_]UNEVICTABLE_LRU. [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: revert shm change] Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/shmem.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/shmem.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index fc2ccf79a776..d38d7e61fcd0 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -1477,12 +1477,16 @@ int shmem_lock(struct file *file, int lock, struct user_struct *user) if (!user_shm_lock(inode->i_size, user)) goto out_nomem; info->flags |= VM_LOCKED; + mapping_set_unevictable(file->f_mapping); } if (!lock && (info->flags & VM_LOCKED) && user) { user_shm_unlock(inode->i_size, user); info->flags &= ~VM_LOCKED; + mapping_clear_unevictable(file->f_mapping); + scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(file->f_mapping); } retval = 0; + out_nomem: spin_unlock(&info->lock); return retval; |