When bulk freeing pages from the per-cpu lists the zone is checked for isolated pageblocks on every release. This patch checks it once per drain. Technically this is race-prone but so is the existing code. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 4a364e318873..835a1c434832 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -831,6 +831,7 @@ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zone *zone, int count, int batch_free = 0; int to_free = count; unsigned long nr_scanned; + bool isolated_pageblocks = has_isolate_pageblock(zone); spin_lock(&zone->lock); nr_scanned = zone_page_state(zone, NR_PAGES_SCANNED); @@ -870,7 +871,7 @@ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zone *zone, int count, /* MIGRATE_ISOLATE page should not go to pcplists */ VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(is_migrate_isolate(mt), page); /* Pageblock could have been isolated meanwhile */ - if (unlikely(has_isolate_pageblock(zone))) + if (unlikely(isolated_pageblocks)) mt = get_pageblock_migratetype(page); __free_one_page(page, page_to_pfn(page), zone, 0, mt); -- 2.6.4 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>