Re: [PATCH 2/2] Filter unevictable page out in deactivate_page

[Minchan Kim]

Hi Rik,

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/01/2011 11:03 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:
>>
>> 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@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Âmm/swap.c | Â Â9 +++++++++
>> Â1 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)
>> Â */
>> Âvoid deactivate_page(struct page *page)
>> Â{
>> +
>> + Â Â Â /*
>> + Â Â Â Â* In workload which system has many unevictable page(ex,
>> mprotect),
>> + Â Â Â Â* unevictalge page deactivation for accelerating reclaim
>
> Typo.

My bad. I will resend after work.
Thanks.

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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