From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail138.messagelabs.com (mail138.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E5136B004F for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:54:20 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/25] Do not disable interrupts in free_page_mlock() From: Pekka Enberg In-Reply-To: <1240266011-11140-19-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> References: <1240266011-11140-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <1240266011-11140-19-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:55:07 +0300 Message-Id: <1240300507.771.52.camel@penberg-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Mel Gorman Cc: Linux Memory Management List , KOSAKI Motohiro , Christoph Lameter , Nick Piggin , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Lin Ming , Zhang Yanmin , Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton List-ID: On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 23:20 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > free_page_mlock() tests and clears PG_mlocked using locked versions of the > bit operations. If set, it disables interrupts to update counters and this > happens on every page free even though interrupts are disabled very shortly > afterwards a second time. This is wasteful. > > This patch splits what free_page_mlock() does. The bit check is still > made. However, the update of counters is delayed until the interrupts are > disabled and the non-lock version for clearing the bit is used. One potential > weirdness with this split is that the counters do not get updated if the > bad_page() check is triggered but a system showing bad pages is getting > screwed already. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman > Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg > --- > mm/internal.h | 11 +++-------- > mm/page_alloc.c | 8 +++++++- > 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h > index 987bb03..58ec1bc 100644 > --- a/mm/internal.h > +++ b/mm/internal.h > @@ -157,14 +157,9 @@ static inline void mlock_migrate_page(struct page *newpage, struct page *page) > */ > static inline void free_page_mlock(struct page *page) > { > - if (unlikely(TestClearPageMlocked(page))) { > - unsigned long flags; > - > - local_irq_save(flags); > - __dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_MLOCK); > - __count_vm_event(UNEVICTABLE_MLOCKFREED); > - local_irq_restore(flags); > - } Maybe add a VM_BUG_ON(!PageMlocked(page))? > + __ClearPageMlocked(page); > + __dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_MLOCK); > + __count_vm_event(UNEVICTABLE_MLOCKFREED); > } > > #else /* CONFIG_HAVE_MLOCKED_PAGE_BIT */ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org