As func comments mentioned, few isolated page missing be tolerated.
So why not do further to drop the unlikely double check. That won't
cause more idle pages, but reduce a lock contention.
This is also a preparation for later new page isolation feature.
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
mm/page_idle.c | 8 --------
1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_idle.c b/mm/page_idle.c
index 295512465065..914df63948b1 100644
--- a/mm/page_idle.c
+++ b/mm/page_idle.c
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
static struct page *page_idle_get_page(unsigned long pfn)
{
struct page *page;
- pg_data_t *pgdat;
if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
return NULL;
@@ -41,13 +40,6 @@ static struct page *page_idle_get_page(unsigned long pfn)
!get_page_unless_zero(page))
return NULL;
- pgdat = page_pgdat(page);
- spin_lock_irq(&pgdat->lru_lock);
- if (unlikely(!PageLRU(page))) {
- put_page(page);
- page = NULL;
- }
- spin_unlock_irq(&pgdat->lru_lock);
return page;
}
--
1.8.3.1
