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mm: compaction: acquire the zone->lock as late as possible
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Mon, 8 Oct 2012 23:32:36 +0000 (16:32 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 9 Oct 2012 07:22:49 +0000 (16:22 +0900)
commit9e2d9da323ac90aef365f467bc6bb38b3b84642a
tree71c930024b943dfd5dee0b5bd912f73747e4478e
parentf5ff8bccb37da964295555cd6d988216344e6b50
mm: compaction: acquire the zone->lock as late as possible

Compaction's free scanner acquires the zone->lock when checking for
PageBuddy pages and isolating them.  It does this even if there are no
PageBuddy pages in the range.

This patch defers acquiring the zone lock for as long as possible.  In the
event there are no free pages in the pageblock then the lock will not be
acquired at all which reduces contention on zone->lock.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Davies <richard@arachsys.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/compaction.c