When pagelist is empty, it is not necessary to do the move and store. Also it consolidate the empty list check in one place. Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> --- mm/migrate.c | 9 +++------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c index a4d3bd6475e1..80d2bba57265 100644 --- a/mm/migrate.c +++ b/mm/migrate.c @@ -1499,9 +1499,6 @@ static int do_move_pages_to_node(struct mm_struct *mm, { int err; - if (list_empty(pagelist)) - return 0; - err = migrate_pages(pagelist, alloc_new_node_page, NULL, node, MIGRATE_SYNC, MR_SYSCALL); if (err) @@ -1589,6 +1586,9 @@ static int move_pages_and_store_status(struct mm_struct *mm, int node, { int err; + if (list_empty(pagelist)) + return 0; + err = do_move_pages_to_node(mm, pagelist, node); if (err) return err; @@ -1676,9 +1676,6 @@ static int do_pages_move(struct mm_struct *mm, nodemask_t task_nodes, current_node = NUMA_NO_NODE; } out_flush: - if (list_empty(&pagelist)) - return err; - /* Make sure we do not overwrite the existing error */ err1 = move_pages_and_store_status(mm, current_node, &pagelist, status, start, i - start); -- 2.17.1