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SubjectRe: [v5][PATCH 5/6] mm: vmscan: batch shrink_page_list() locking operations
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On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> wrote:
> +/*
> + * pages come in here (via remove_list) locked and leave unlocked
> + * (on either ret_pages or free_pages)
> + *
> + * We do this batching so that we free batches of pages with a
> + * single mapping->tree_lock acquisition/release. This optimization
> + * only makes sense when the pages on remove_list all share a
> + * page_mapping(). If this is violated you will BUG_ON().
> + */
> +static int __remove_mapping_batch(struct list_head *remove_list,
> + struct list_head *ret_pages,
> + struct list_head *free_pages)
> +{
> + int nr_reclaimed = 0;
> + struct address_space *mapping;
> + struct page *page;
> + LIST_HEAD(need_free_mapping);
> +
> + if (list_empty(remove_list))
> + return 0;
> +
> + mapping = page_mapping(lru_to_page(remove_list));
> + spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
> + while (!list_empty(remove_list)) {
> + page = lru_to_page(remove_list);
> + BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
> + BUG_ON(page_mapping(page) != mapping);
> + list_del(&page->lru);
> +
> + if (!__remove_mapping(mapping, page)) {
> + unlock_page(page);
> + list_add(&page->lru, ret_pages);
> + continue;
> + }
> + list_add(&page->lru, &need_free_mapping);
> + }
> + spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
> +
While reclaiming pages, can we open ears upon IRQ controller,
if the page list length is over 10, or even 20?


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