linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 28/39] mm: Avoid splitting large pages

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Message-Id: <20200529025824.32296-29-willy@infradead.org>
Date:   Thu, 28 May 2020 19:58:13 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v5 28/39] mm: Avoid splitting large pages

From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>

If the filesystem supports large pages, then do not split them before
removing them from the page cache; remove them as a unit.
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index b06868fc4926..51e6c135575d 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1271,9 +1271,10 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
 				/* Adding to swap updated mapping */
 				mapping = page_mapping(page);
 			}
-		} else if (unlikely(PageTransHuge(page))) {
+		} else if (PageTransHuge(page)) {
 			/* Split file THP */
-			if (split_huge_page_to_list(page, page_list))
+			if (!mapping_large_pages(mapping) &&
+			    split_huge_page_to_list(page, page_list))
 				goto keep_locked;
 		}
 
-- 
2.26.2