Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: Avoid putting a bad page back on the LRU v3

[Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>]

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 01:11:34PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 9 May 2008 10:10:58 -0500
> Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> wrote:
> 
> > Index: linus/mm/swap.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linus.orig/mm/swap.c	2008-05-09 09:19:40.466984064 -0500
> > +++ linus/mm/swap.c	2008-05-09 09:20:11.330791803 -0500
> > @@ -195,6 +195,8 @@ void lru_cache_add(struct page *page)
> >  	struct pagevec *pvec = &get_cpu_var(lru_add_pvecs);
> >  
> >  	page_cache_get(page);
> > +	if (unlikely(PageMemError(page)))
> > +		return;		/* Don't add bad pages to the page list */
> >  	if (!pagevec_add(pvec, page))
> >  		__pagevec_lru_add(pvec);
> >  	put_cpu_var(lru_add_pvecs);
> > @@ -205,6 +207,8 @@ void lru_cache_add_active(struct page *p
> >  	struct pagevec *pvec = &get_cpu_var(lru_add_active_pvecs);
> >  
> >  	page_cache_get(page);
> > +	if (unlikely(PageMemError(page)))
> > +		return;		/* Don't add bad pages to the page list */
> >  	if (!pagevec_add(pvec, page))
> >  		__pagevec_lru_add_active(pvec);
> >  	put_cpu_var(lru_add_active_pvecs);
> 
> These PageMemError() tests are happening in some pretty darn hot paths. 
> But we've gone and added this overhead to a lot of architectures and
> configs which don't need it.
>
> Should we tighten that up?  Arrange for PageMemError() to evaluate to
> constant zero for all builds which don't actually implement "Migrate data
> off physical pages with correctable errors"?

Yes.

> Probably the way to implement that would be to add a new
> CONFIG_NEED_PAGE_MEM_ERROR and `select' that from the appropriate place in
> ia64 Kconfig.  Which is pretty nasty, but a) we're nasty that way rather
> often and b) this time it _is_ a hot-path, so some nastiness is
> justifiable.

Will do.

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Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead  
SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc          rja@sgi.com