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[PATCH] SwapMig: Drop unused pages immediately

Drop unused pages immediately

If a page is encountered that is only referenced by the migration code then
there is no reason to swap or migrate the page.  Release the page by calling
move_to_lru().

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Lameter 19 years ago
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mm/vmscan.c

@@ -689,6 +689,11 @@ redo:
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(page, page2, l, lru) {
 		cond_resched();
 
+		if (page_count(page) == 1) {
+			/* page was freed from under us. So we are done. */
+			move_to_lru(page);
+			continue;
+		}
 		/*
 		 * Skip locked pages during the first two passes to give the
 		 * functions holding the lock time to release the page. Later we