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mm: filter unevictable page out in deactivate_page()

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It's pointless that deactive_page's operates on unevictable pages.  This
patch removes unnecessary overhead which might be a bit problem in case
that there are many unevictable page in system(ex, mprotect workload)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tidy up comment]
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Minchan Kim 2011-05-24 17:12:31 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -476,6 +476,13 @@ static void drain_cpu_pagevecs(int cpu)
*/
void deactivate_page(struct page *page)
{
/*
* In a workload with many unevictable page such as mprotect, unevictable
* page deactivation for accelerating reclaim is pointless.
*/
if (PageUnevictable(page))
return;
if (likely(get_page_unless_zero(page))) {
struct pagevec *pvec = &get_cpu_var(lru_deactivate_pvecs);