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vmscan: remove dead code in shrink_inactive_list()
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vmscan-remove-dead-code-in-shrink_inactive_list.patch
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Subject: vmscan: remove dead code in shrink_inactive_list()
From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
After synchrounous lumpy reclaim, the page_list is guaranteed to not have
active pages as page activation in shrink_page_list() disables lumpy
reclaim. Remove the dead code.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 8 --------
1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~vmscan-remove-dead-code-in-shrink_inactive_list mm/vmscan.c
--- a/mm/vmscan.c~vmscan-remove-dead-code-in-shrink_inactive_list
+++ a/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1331,7 +1331,6 @@ shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to
unsigned long nr_scanned;
unsigned long nr_reclaimed = 0;
unsigned long nr_taken;
- unsigned long nr_active;
unsigned long nr_anon;
unsigned long nr_file;
@@ -1386,13 +1385,6 @@ shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to
/* Check if we should syncronously wait for writeback */
if (should_reclaim_stall(nr_taken, nr_reclaimed, priority, sc)) {
- /*
- * The attempt at page out may have made some
- * of the pages active, mark them inactive again.
- */
- nr_active = clear_active_flags(&page_list, NULL);
- count_vm_events(PGDEACTIVATE, nr_active);
-
set_lumpy_reclaim_mode(priority, sc, true);
nr_reclaimed += shrink_page_list(&page_list, sc);
}
_
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writeback-add-sys-devices-system-node-node-vmstat-update.patch
writeback-report-dirty-thresholds-in-proc-vmstat.patch
vmscan-delete-dead-code.patch
tracing-vmscan-add-trace-events-for-lru-list-shrinking.patch
writeback-account-for-time-spent-congestion_waited.patch
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vmscan-remove-dead-code-in-shrink_inactive_list.patch
vmscan-isolated_lru_pages-stop-neighbour-search-if-neighbour-cannot-be-isolated.patch
writeback-do-not-sleep-on-the-congestion-queue-if-there-are-no-congested-bdis.patch
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