Re: [PATCH 4/4] thp: increase split_huge_page() success rate

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On 12/29/2015 09:57 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 03:30:26PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
Fair enough.

mlocked pages are rare and lru_add_drain() isn't free.  We could easily
and cheaply make page_remove_rmap() return "bool was_mlocked" (or,
better, "bool might_be_in_lru_cache") to skip this overhead.

Propagating it back is painful. What about this instead:

Looks good.

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index ecb4ed1a821a..edfa53eda9ca 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -3385,6 +3385,7 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct list_head *list)
  	struct page *head = compound_head(page);
  	struct anon_vma *anon_vma;
  	int count, mapcount, ret;
+	bool mlocked;

  	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(is_huge_zero_page(page), page);
  	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageAnon(page), page);
@@ -3415,11 +3416,13 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page *page, struct list_head *list)
  		goto out_unlock;
  	}

+	mlocked = PageMlocked(page);
  	freeze_page(anon_vma, head);
  	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound_mapcount(head), head);

  	/* Make sure the page is not on per-CPU pagevec as it takes pin */
-	lru_add_drain();
+	if (mlocked)
+		lru_add_drain();

  	/* Prevent deferred_split_scan() touching ->_count */
  	spin_lock(&split_queue_lock);


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