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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)
commitc8519b260ca82473bfb4c2de28bdd34233d6bf94
tree71c930024b943dfd5dee0b5bd912f73747e4478e
parent2f7c2391da66e18c0218c8f4fc857668761ed81f
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