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authorMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>2011-11-01 01:06:51 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-11-01 01:30:44 +0100
commit39deaf8585152f1a35c1676d3d7dc6ae0fb65967 (patch)
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parentmm: change isolate mode from #define to bitwise type (diff)
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mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware
In async mode, compaction doesn't migrate dirty or writeback pages. So, it's meaningless to pick the page and re-add it to lru list. Of course, when we isolate the page in compaction, the page might be dirty or writeback but when we try to migrate the page, the page would be not dirty, writeback. So it could be migrated. But it's very unlikely as isolate and migration cycle is much faster than writeout. So, this patch helps cpu overhead and prevent unnecessary LRU churning. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index ec6dbcb976d1..c007e78d7078 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1045,6 +1045,9 @@ int __isolate_lru_page(struct page *page, isolate_mode_t mode, int file)
ret = -EBUSY;
+ if ((mode & ISOLATE_CLEAN) && (PageDirty(page) || PageWriteback(page)))
+ return ret;
+
if (likely(get_page_unless_zero(page))) {
/*
* Be careful not to clear PageLRU until after we're