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