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authorMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>2011-05-24 17:12:31 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-05-25 08:39:27 -0700
commit821ed6bbed3cf41c4050a431eeb822b33868d36a (patch)
tree50f6808a20263aaaf546a69218e1c1312ce7b51e /mm
parent2cbea1d3ab11946885d37a2461072ee4d687cb4e (diff)
downloadlinux-821ed6bbed3cf41c4050a431eeb822b33868d36a.tar.gz
mm: filter unevictable page out in deactivate_page()
It's pointless that deactive_page's operates on unevictable pages.  This
patch removes unnecessary overhead which might be a bit problem in case
that there are many unevictable page in system(ex, mprotect workload)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tidy up comment]
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/swap.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
index 5602f1a1b1e7..2f365d1a4bb2 100644
--- a/mm/swap.c
+++ b/mm/swap.c
@@ -476,6 +476,13 @@ static void drain_cpu_pagevecs(int cpu)
  */
 void deactivate_page(struct page *page)
 {
+	/*
+	 * In a workload with many unevictable page such as mprotect, unevictable
+	 * 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);