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authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>2009-01-06 14:39:34 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-06 15:59:03 -0800
commit7b1fe59793e61f826bef053107b57b23954833bb (patch)
tree0ac769c48123c5d0770b0a0f88bad9e6318b83ed /mm
parentab967d86015a19777955370deebc8262d50fed63 (diff)
mm: reuse_swap_page replaces can_share_swap_page
A good place to free up old swap is where do_wp_page(), or do_swap_page(), is about to redirty the page: the data on disk is then stale and won't be read again; and if we do decide to write the page out later, using the previous swap location makes an unnecessary disk seek very likely. So give can_share_swap_page() the side-effect of delete_from_swap_cache() when it safely can. And can_share_swap_page() was always a misleading name, the more so if it has a side-effect: rename it reuse_swap_page(). Irrelevant cleanup nearby: remove swap_token_default_timeout definition from swap.h: it's used nowhere. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c4
-rw-r--r--mm/swapfile.c15
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 3922ffcf3dff..8f471edcb985 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1861,7 +1861,7 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
}
page_cache_release(old_page);
}
- reuse = can_share_swap_page(old_page);
+ reuse = reuse_swap_page(old_page);
unlock_page(old_page);
} else if (unlikely((vma->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)) ==
(VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED))) {
@@ -2392,7 +2392,7 @@ static int do_swap_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
inc_mm_counter(mm, anon_rss);
pte = mk_pte(page, vma->vm_page_prot);
- if (write_access && can_share_swap_page(page)) {
+ if (write_access && reuse_swap_page(page)) {
pte = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(pte), vma);
write_access = 0;
}
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 214e90b94946..bfd4ee59cb88 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -326,17 +326,24 @@ static inline int page_swapcount(struct page *page)
}
/*
- * We can use this swap cache entry directly
- * if there are no other references to it.
+ * We can write to an anon page without COW if there are no other references
+ * to it. And as a side-effect, free up its swap: because the old content
+ * on disk will never be read, and seeking back there to write new content
+ * later would only waste time away from clustering.
*/
-int can_share_swap_page(struct page *page)
+int reuse_swap_page(struct page *page)
{
int count;
VM_BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
count = page_mapcount(page);
- if (count <= 1 && PageSwapCache(page))
+ if (count <= 1 && PageSwapCache(page)) {
count += page_swapcount(page);
+ if (count == 1 && !PageWriteback(page)) {
+ delete_from_swap_cache(page);
+ SetPageDirty(page);
+ }
+ }
return count == 1;
}