[PATCH v4 26/36] mm: Avoid splitting large pages

[Matthew Wilcox]

From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

If the filesystem supports large pages, then do not split them before
removing them from the page cache; remove them as a unit.
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index b06868fc4926..51e6c135575d 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1271,9 +1271,10 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
 				/* Adding to swap updated mapping */
 				mapping = page_mapping(page);
 			}
-		} else if (unlikely(PageTransHuge(page))) {
+		} else if (PageTransHuge(page)) {
 			/* Split file THP */
-			if (split_huge_page_to_list(page, page_list))
+			if (!mapping_large_pages(mapping) &&
+			    split_huge_page_to_list(page, page_list))
 				goto keep_locked;
 		}
 
-- 
2.26.2