vmscan: move isolate_lru_page() to vmscan.c

On large memory systems, the VM can spend way too much time scanning
through pages that it cannot (or should not) evict from memory.  Not only
does it use up CPU time, but it also provokes lock contention and can
leave large systems under memory presure in a catatonic state.

This patch series improves VM scalability by:

1) putting filesystem backed, swap backed and unevictable pages
   onto their own LRUs, so the system only scans the pages that it
   can/should evict from memory

2) switching to two handed clock replacement for the anonymous LRUs,
   so the number of pages that need to be scanned when the system
   starts swapping is bound to a reasonable number

3) keeping unevictable pages off the LRU completely, so the
   VM does not waste CPU time scanning them. ramfs, ramdisk,
   SHM_LOCKED shared memory segments and mlock()ed VMA pages
   are keept on the unevictable list.

This patch:

isolate_lru_page logically belongs to be in vmscan.c than migrate.c.

It is tough, because we don't need that function without memory migration
so there is a valid argument to have it in migrate.c.  However a
subsequent patch needs to make use of it in the core mm, so we can happily
move it to vmscan.c.

Also, make the function a little more generic by not requiring that it
adds an isolated page to a given list.  Callers can do that.

	Note that we now have '__isolate_lru_page()', that does
	something quite different, visible outside of vmscan.c
	for use with memory controller.  Methinks we need to
	rationalize these names/purposes.	--lts

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/memory_hotplug.c build]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 31 deletions

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 2a80136b23bb..da73742e52a5 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -37,36 +37,6 @@
 #define lru_to_page(_head) (list_entry((_head)->prev, struct page, lru))
 
 /*
- * Isolate one page from the LRU lists. If successful put it onto
- * the indicated list with elevated page count.
- *
- * Result:
- *  -EBUSY: page not on LRU list
- *  0: page removed from LRU list and added to the specified list.
- */
-int isolate_lru_page(struct page *page, struct list_head *pagelist)
-{
-	int ret = -EBUSY;
-
-	if (PageLRU(page)) {
-		struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);
-
-		spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
-		if (PageLRU(page) && get_page_unless_zero(page)) {
-			ret = 0;
-			ClearPageLRU(page);
-			if (PageActive(page))
-				del_page_from_active_list(zone, page);
-			else
-				del_page_from_inactive_list(zone, page);
-			list_add_tail(&page->lru, pagelist);
-		}
-		spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
-	}
-	return ret;
-}
-
-/*
  * migrate_prep() needs to be called before we start compiling a list of pages
  * to be migrated using isolate_lru_page().
  */
@@ -914,7 +884,9 @@ static int do_move_pages(struct mm_struct *mm, struct page_to_node *pm,
 				!migrate_all)
 			goto put_and_set;
 
-		err = isolate_lru_page(page, &pagelist);
+		err = isolate_lru_page(page);
+		if (!err)
+			list_add_tail(&page->lru, &pagelist);
 put_and_set:
 		/*
 		 * Either remove the duplicate refcount from