mm: unlockless reclaim
unlock_page is fairly expensive. It can be avoided in page reclaim
success path. By definition if we have any other references to the page
it would be a bug anyway.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Reviewed-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>
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 412d787..3b58602 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -732,7 +732,14 @@
if (!mapping || !__remove_mapping(mapping, page))
goto keep_locked;
- unlock_page(page);
+ /*
+ * At this point, we have no other references and there is
+ * no way to pick any more up (removed from LRU, removed
+ * from pagecache). Can use non-atomic bitops now (and
+ * we obviously don't have to worry about waking up a process
+ * waiting on the page lock, because there are no references.
+ */
+ __clear_page_locked(page);
free_it:
nr_reclaimed++;
if (!pagevec_add(&freed_pvec, page)) {