linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/4] mm: use swap readahead at swapoff

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Message-ID: <20120210194233.6492.86917.stgit@zurg>
Date:	Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:42:33 +0400
From:	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>
To:	linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] mm: use swap readahead at swapoff

try_to_unuse() iterates over swap-entries sequentially,
thus readahead here will not hurt.

Test results:
Virtual machine: without patch 7 seconds, with patch 4 seconds.
Real hardware: without patch 100 seconds, with patch 70 seconds.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>
---
 mm/swapfile.c |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index d999f09..4c99689 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1106,8 +1106,7 @@ static int try_to_unuse(unsigned int type)
 		 */
 		swap_map = &si->swap_map[i];
 		entry = swp_entry(type, i);
-		page = read_swap_cache_async(entry,
-					GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, NULL, 0);
+		page = swapin_readahead(entry, GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, NULL, 0);
 		if (!page) {
 			/*
 			 * Either swap_duplicate() failed because entry

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