Re: [PATCH *] 2.4.0 VM improvements

Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Sun, 7 Jan 2001 14:25:42 -0200 (BRST)


On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:

> The patch is available at this URL:
>
> http://www.surriel.com/patches/2.4/2.4.0-tunevm+rss

I have one improvement on top of your patch.

Now its not more "rare" (as the comment on the code stated) to have
pages with page->age == 0 being called on lru_cache_add.

This patch should make the overhead of calling lru_cache_add on pages with
page->age == 0 smaller.

--- mm/swap.c.orig Sun Jan 7 15:59:37 2001
+++ mm/swap.c Sun Jan 7 16:11:21 2001
@@ -233,10 +233,12 @@
if (!PageLocked(page))
BUG();
DEBUG_ADD_PAGE
- add_page_to_active_list(page);
- /* This should be relatively rare */
- if (!page->age)
- deactivate_page_nolock(page);
+
+ if (page->age)
+ add_page_to_active_list(page);
+ else
+ add_page_to_inactive_dirty_list(page);
+
spin_unlock(&pagemap_lru_lock);
}

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