mm/swap: skip readahead for unreferenced swap slots

We can avoid needlessly allocating page for swap slots that are not used
by anyone.  No pages have to be read in for these slots.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0784b3f20b9bd3aa5552219624cb78dc4ae710c9.1484082593.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> escreveu:
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Tim Chen
2017-02-22 15:45:29 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 4b3ef9daa4
commit e8c26ab605
3 changed files with 51 additions and 6 deletions

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@@ -323,6 +323,10 @@ struct page *__read_swap_cache_async(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask,
if (found_page)
break;
/* Just skip read ahead for unused swap slot */
if (!__swp_swapcount(entry))
return NULL;
/*
* Get a new page to read into from swap.
*/