The patch titled mm: do_migrate_range: reduce list_empty() check has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-do_migrate_range-reduce-list_empty-check.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: mm: do_migrate_range: reduce list_empty() check From: Bob Liu <lliubbo@xxxxxxxxx> Simple code for reducing list_empty(&source) check. Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory_hotplug.c | 21 +++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/memory_hotplug.c~mm-do_migrate_range-reduce-list_empty-check mm/memory_hotplug.c --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c~mm-do_migrate_range-reduce-list_empty-check +++ a/mm/memory_hotplug.c @@ -705,24 +705,21 @@ do_migrate_range(unsigned long start_pfn check this again here. */ if (page_count(page)) { not_managed++; + ret = -EBUSY; break; } } } - ret = -EBUSY; - if (not_managed) { - if (!list_empty(&source)) + if (!list_empty(&source)) { + if (not_managed) { + putback_lru_pages(&source); + goto out; + } + /* this function returns # of failed pages */ + ret = migrate_pages(&source, hotremove_migrate_alloc, 0, 1); + if (ret) putback_lru_pages(&source); - goto out; } - ret = 0; - if (list_empty(&source)) - goto out; - /* this function returns # of failed pages */ - ret = migrate_pages(&source, hotremove_migrate_alloc, 0, 1); - if (ret) - putback_lru_pages(&source); - out: return ret; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from lliubbo@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch mm-page_isolation-codeclean-fix-comment-and-rm-unneeded-val-init.patch mm-do_migrate_range-exit-loop-if-not_managed-is-true.patch mm-do_migrate_range-reduce-list_empty-check.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html