[PATCH 06/12] mm/vmscan: Optimise shrink_page_list for non-PMD-sized folios

From: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Date: Sun Jan 16 2022 - 07:18:39 EST


A large folio which is smaller than a PMD does not need to do the extra
work in try_to_unmap() of trying to split a PMD entry.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 45665874082d..3181bf2f8a37 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1754,7 +1754,8 @@ static unsigned int shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
enum ttu_flags flags = TTU_BATCH_FLUSH;
bool was_swapbacked = PageSwapBacked(page);

- if (unlikely(PageTransHuge(page)))
+ if (PageTransHuge(page) &&
+ thp_order(page) >= HPAGE_PMD_ORDER)
flags |= TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD;

try_to_unmap(page, flags);
--
2.34.1