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| author | Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> | 2008-10-18 20:26:43 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-10-20 08:50:26 -0700 |
| commit | 89e004ea55abe201b29e2d6e35124101f1288ef7 (patch) | |
| tree | 272a8f453106fd33d66fd7153f44696648dbe8b6 /include/linux/swap.h | |
| parent | ba9ddf49391645e6bb93219131a40446538a5e76 (diff) | |
SHM_LOCKED pages are unevictable
Shmem segments locked into memory via shmctl(SHM_LOCKED) should not be
kept on the normal LRU, since scanning them is a waste of time and might
throw off kswapd's balancing algorithms. Place them on the unevictable
LRU list instead.
Use the AS_UNEVICTABLE flag to mark address_space of SHM_LOCKed shared
memory regions as unevictable. Then these pages will be culled off the
normal LRU lists during vmscan.
Add new wrapper function to clear the mapping's unevictable state when/if
shared memory segment is munlocked.
Add 'scan_mapping_unevictable_page()' to mm/vmscan.c to scan all pages in
the shmem segment's mapping [struct address_space] for evictability now
that they're no longer locked. If so, move them to the appropriate zone
lru list.
Changes depend on [CONFIG_]UNEVICTABLE_LRU.
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: revert shm change]
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/swap.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/swap.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h index a2113044d20a..7edb4cbc29f9 100644 --- a/include/linux/swap.h +++ b/include/linux/swap.h @@ -232,12 +232,16 @@ static inline int zone_reclaim(struct zone *z, gfp_t mask, unsigned int order) #ifdef CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU extern int page_evictable(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma); +extern void scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(struct address_space *); #else static inline int page_evictable(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma) { return 1; } +static inline void scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(struct address_space *mapping) +{ +} #endif extern int kswapd_run(int nid); |