It's pointless that deactive_page's pagevec operation about unevictable page as it's nop. This patch removes unnecessary overhead which might be a bit problem in case that there are many unevictable page in system(ex, mprotect workload) Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/swap.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c index 2e9656d..e121ceb 100644 --- a/mm/swap.c +++ b/mm/swap.c @@ -511,6 +511,15 @@ static void drain_cpu_pagevecs(int cpu) */ void deactivate_page(struct page *page) { + + /* + * In workload which system has many unevictable page(ex, mprotect), + * unevictable page deactivation for accelerating reclaim + * is pointless. + */ + if (PageUnevictable(page)) + return; + if (likely(get_page_unless_zero(page))) { struct pagevec *pvec = &get_cpu_var(lru_deactivate_pvecs); -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>