Commit 821ed6bb authored by Minchan Kim's avatar Minchan Kim Committed by Linus Torvalds

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: default avatarKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 2cbea1d3
......@@ -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);
......
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