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SubjectRe: [PATCH 6/9] mm: compaction: Acquire the zone->lock as late as possible
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:46:20AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Compactions free scanner acquires the zone->lock when checking for PageBuddy
> pages and isolating them. It does this even if there are no PageBuddy pages
> in the range.
>
> This patch defers acquiring the zone lock for as long as possible. In the
> event there are no free pages in the pageblock then the lock will not be
> acquired at all which reduces contention on zone->lock.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim


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