PATCH: Improvement in shrink_mmap

["Juan J. Quintela" <quintela@fi.udc.es>]

Hi
        The actual code in shrink mmap waits for all the pages after
        we pass priority pages.  The idea is to wait only each
        priority pages.  I have had such a patch for a while here, it
        appears to work here.  I send it to Linus in the middle of a
        bigger patch that was not accepted and I forgot to send only
        this two-liner.

Later, Juan.

diff -urN --exclude-from=/home/lfcia/quintela/work/kernel/exclude ac18/mm/filemap.c prueba/mm/filemap.c
--- ac18/mm/filemap.c	Tue Jun 13 23:18:35 2000
+++ prueba/mm/filemap.c	Thu Jun 15 00:18:33 2000
@@ -351,7 +351,9 @@
 		 * of zone - it's old.
 		 */
 		if (page->buffers) {
-			int wait = ((gfp_mask & __GFP_IO) && (nr_dirty-- < 0));
+			int wait = ((gfp_mask & __GFP_IO) && (nr_dirty-- <= 0));
+			if(nr_dirty < 0)
+				nr_dirty = priority;
 			if (!try_to_free_buffers(page, wait))
 				goto unlock_continue;
 			/* page was locked, inode can't go away under us */


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