Re: [patch 1/2] vm early reclaim orphaned pages (take 2)

[Andrew Morton]

Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  How about this?
>

It might be good, it's hard to tell.

Performance testing is needed.

>  --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/swap.c	2004-12-25 08:34:31.000000000 +1100
>  +++ linux-2.6/mm/swap.c	2005-06-20 17:20:28.216728238 +1000
>  @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
>   	spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lru_lock, flags);
>   	if (PageLRU(page) && !PageActive(page)) {
>   		list_del(&page->lru);
>  -		list_add_tail(&page->lru, &zone->inactive_list);
>  +		list_move_tail(&page->lru, &zone->inactive_list);
>   		inc_page_state(pgrotated);
>   	}
>   	if (!test_clear_page_writeback(page))
>  @@ -97,6 +97,32 @@
>   }

Correctness testing is needed too ;)
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