swapoff: scan ptes preemptibly
authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Tue, 5 Feb 2008 06:28:46 +0000 (22:28 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 5 Feb 2008 17:44:15 +0000 (09:44 -0800)
commit2e441889c38fe1b6ef6b963e6993076aa120176c
treef8cc99d2b8a3b90c6ff2c3e6d14e90d7edd95d7e
parent8952898b0d25223f38daf46b86156fd1c4d17ad0
swapoff: scan ptes preemptibly

Provided that CONFIG_HIGHPTE is not set, unuse_pte_range can reduce latency
in swapoff by scanning the page table preemptibly: so long as unuse_pte is
careful to recheck that entry under pte lock.

(To tell the truth, this patch was not inspired by any cries for lower
latency here: rather, this restructuring permits a future memory controller
patch to allocate with GFP_KERNEL in unuse_pte, where before it could not.
But it would be wrong to tuck this change away inside a memcgroup patch.)

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/swapfile.c