[PATCH] 2.4.9 si_swapinfo() speedup

Zach Brown (zab@osdlab.org)
Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:45:21 -0700


the attached patch makes si_swapinfo() use the swapfile.c global page
accounting rather than walking the swapfiles to find the total and
free numbers. Some folks have seen si_swapinfo() take an absurd amount
of time..

Rik hints at rumours of the global accounting being questionable in some
cases, perhaps more use of it would motivate that to be fixed :)

compiles, but totally untested.

- z

--- linux-2.4.9/mm/swapfile.c.swapinfo Mon Sep 10 11:06:05 2001
+++ linux-2.4.9/mm/swapfile.c Mon Sep 10 11:40:22 2001
@@ -877,27 +877,12 @@

void si_swapinfo(struct sysinfo *val)
{
- unsigned int i;
- unsigned long freeswap = 0;
- unsigned long totalswap = 0;
+ swap_list_lock();

- for (i = 0; i < nr_swapfiles; i++) {
- unsigned int j;
- if ((swap_info[i].flags & SWP_WRITEOK) != SWP_WRITEOK)
- continue;
- for (j = 0; j < swap_info[i].max; ++j) {
- switch (swap_info[i].swap_map[j]) {
- case SWAP_MAP_BAD:
- continue;
- case 0:
- freeswap++;
- default:
- totalswap++;
- }
- }
- }
- val->freeswap = freeswap;
- val->totalswap = totalswap;
+ val->totalswap = total_swap_pages;
+ val->freeswap = nr_swap_pages;
+
+ swap_list_unlock();
return;
}

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/