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authorLee Schermerhorn <[email protected]>2008-10-18 20:26:43 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2008-10-20 08:50:26 -0700
commit89e004ea55abe201b29e2d6e35124101f1288ef7 (patch)
tree272a8f453106fd33d66fd7153f44696648dbe8b6 /scripts
parentba9ddf49391645e6bb93219131a40446538a5e76 (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. [[email protected]: revert shm change] Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Kosaki Motohiro <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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