reduce shrink_mmap rate of failure (initial attempt)

[Roger Larsson <roger.larsson@norran.net>]

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Hi all,

This is a trivial first attempt to reduce shrink_mmap failures
(leading to swap)

It is against 2.4.0-test1-ac7-riel3 but that is almost what
we have currently - and it is trivial to apply with an editor.

It might be possible to improve this further - but it is a start.
(Time for bed...)

/RogerL

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--- /usr/src/linux/mm/filemap.c.orig	Sat Jun  3 19:09:16 2000
+++ /usr/src/linux/mm/filemap.c	Wed Jun  7 01:21:19 2000
@@ -332,6 +332,14 @@
 		if (page->age)
 			goto dispose_continue;
 
+		/*
+		 * Page is from a zone we don't care about.
+		 * Don't drop page cache entries in vain.
+		 * Must be done before count - or do a count++
+		 */
+		if (page->zone->free_pages > page->zone->pages_high)
+			goto dispose_continue;
+
 		count--;
 		/*
 		 * Avoid unscalable SMP locking for pages we can
@@ -367,13 +375,6 @@
 				goto made_buffer_progress;
 			}
 		}
-
-		/*
-		 * Page is from a zone we don't care about.
-		 * Don't drop page cache entries in vain.
-		 */
-		if (page->zone->free_pages > page->zone->pages_high)
-			goto unlock_continue;
 
 		/* Take the pagecache_lock spinlock held to avoid
 		   other tasks to notice the page while we are looking at its