Re: [PATCH 2/3] check unevictable flag in lumy reclaim

[Mel Gorman]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 05:01:52PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Lumpy reclaim scans pages from their pfn. Then, it can find unevictable pages
> in its loop. Abort lumpy reclaim when we find Unevictable page, we never get a
> block of pages for requested order.
> 
> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> Index: lumpy-reclaim-trial/mm/vmscan.c
> ===================================================================
> --- lumpy-reclaim-trial.orig/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ lumpy-reclaim-trial/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -936,6 +936,9 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(u
>  			/* Check that we have not crossed a zone boundary. */
>  			if (unlikely(page_zone_id(cursor_page) != zone_id))
>  				continue;
> +			/* Abort when the page is mlocked */
> +			if (unlikely(PageUnevictable(cursor_page)))
> +				break;
>  			if (__isolate_lru_page(cursor_page, mode, file) == 0) {
>  				list_move(&cursor_page->lru, dst);
>  				nr_taken++;
> 

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Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab
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