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author | Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> | 2010-08-10 00:19:31 (GMT) |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-08-10 03:45:00 (GMT) |
commit | abe4c3b50c3f25cb1baf56036024860f12f96015 (patch) | |
tree | 20ac47ac168b30f1dde6773d103ed13432802049 /mm | |
parent | 666356297ec4e9e6594c6008803f2b1403ff7950 (diff) | |
download | linux-abe4c3b50c3f25cb1baf56036024860f12f96015.tar.xz |
vmscan: set up pagevec as late as possible in shrink_page_list()
shrink_page_list() sets up a pagevec to release pages as according as they
are free. It uses significant amounts of stack on the pagevec. This
patch adds pages to be freed via pagevec to a linked list which is then
freed en-masse at the end. This avoids using stack in the main path that
potentially calls writepage().
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 36 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 12b6921..512f463 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -622,6 +622,24 @@ static enum page_references page_check_references(struct page *page, return PAGEREF_RECLAIM; } +static noinline_for_stack void free_page_list(struct list_head *free_pages) +{ + struct pagevec freed_pvec; + struct page *page, *tmp; + + pagevec_init(&freed_pvec, 1); + + list_for_each_entry_safe(page, tmp, free_pages, lru) { + list_del(&page->lru); + if (!pagevec_add(&freed_pvec, page)) { + __pagevec_free(&freed_pvec); + pagevec_reinit(&freed_pvec); + } + } + + pagevec_free(&freed_pvec); +} + /* * shrink_page_list() returns the number of reclaimed pages */ @@ -630,13 +648,12 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list, enum pageout_io sync_writeback) { LIST_HEAD(ret_pages); - struct pagevec freed_pvec; + LIST_HEAD(free_pages); int pgactivate = 0; unsigned long nr_reclaimed = 0; cond_resched(); - pagevec_init(&freed_pvec, 1); while (!list_empty(page_list)) { enum page_references references; struct address_space *mapping; @@ -811,10 +828,12 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list, __clear_page_locked(page); free_it: nr_reclaimed++; - if (!pagevec_add(&freed_pvec, page)) { - __pagevec_free(&freed_pvec); - pagevec_reinit(&freed_pvec); - } + + /* + * Is there need to periodically free_page_list? It would + * appear not as the counts should be low + */ + list_add(&page->lru, &free_pages); continue; cull_mlocked: @@ -837,9 +856,10 @@ keep: list_add(&page->lru, &ret_pages); VM_BUG_ON(PageLRU(page) || PageUnevictable(page)); } + + free_page_list(&free_pages); + list_splice(&ret_pages, page_list); - if (pagevec_count(&freed_pvec)) - __pagevec_free(&freed_pvec); count_vm_events(PGACTIVATE, pgactivate); return nr_reclaimed; } |