[PATCH 1/2] mm/vmscan: filter empty page_list at the beginning

[Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>]

node_page_list would always be !empty on finishing the loop, except
page_list is empty.

Let's handle empty page_list before doing any real work including
touching PF_MEMALLOC flag.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index a7ca3916e2ea..085982d53a32 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2549,9 +2549,12 @@ unsigned long reclaim_pages(struct list_head *page_list)
 	struct page *page;
 	unsigned int noreclaim_flag;
 
+	if (list_empty(page_list))
+		return nr_reclaimed;
+
 	noreclaim_flag = memalloc_noreclaim_save();
 
-	while (!list_empty(page_list)) {
+	do {
 		page = lru_to_page(page_list);
 		if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE)
 			nid = page_to_nid(page);
@@ -2564,10 +2567,9 @@ unsigned long reclaim_pages(struct list_head *page_list)
 
 		nr_reclaimed += reclaim_page_list(&node_page_list, NODE_DATA(nid));
 		nid = NUMA_NO_NODE;
-	}
+	} while (!list_empty(page_list));
 
-	if (!list_empty(&node_page_list))
-		nr_reclaimed += reclaim_page_list(&node_page_list, NODE_DATA(nid));
+	nr_reclaimed += reclaim_page_list(&node_page_list, NODE_DATA(nid));
 
 	memalloc_noreclaim_restore(noreclaim_flag);
 
-- 
2.33.1