[PATCH] vmscan: set try_to_release_page's gfp_mask to 0

Hisashi Hifumi
2008-08-13T02:21:16Z

Hi.

shrink_page_list passes gfp_mask to try_to_release_page.
When shrink_page_list is called from kswapd or buddy system, gfp_mask is set
and (gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT) and (gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) check is positive.
releasepage of jbd/jbd2(ext3/4, ocfs2) and XFS use this parameter.
If try_to_free_page fails due to bh busy in jbd/jbd2, jbd/jbd2 lets a thread wait for
committing transaction. I think this has big performance impacts for vmscan.
So I modified shrink_page_list not to pass gfp_mask to try_to_release_page
in ordered to improve vmscan performance.

Thanks.

Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>

diff -Nrup linux-2.6.27-rc2.org/mm/vmscan.c linux-2.6.27-rc2.vmscan/mm/vmscan.c
--- linux-2.6.27-rc2.org/mm/vmscan.c 2008-08-11 14:33:24.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6.27-rc2.vmscan/mm/vmscan.c 2008-08-12 18:57:05.000000000 +0900
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(st
* Otherwise, leave the page on the LRU so it is swappable.
*/
if (PagePrivate(page)) {
- if (!try_to_release_page(page, sc->gfp_mask))
+ if (!try_to_release_page(page, 0))
goto activate_locked;
if (!mapping && page_count(page) == 1) {
unlock_page(page);