Commit a26f5320 authored Sep 21, 2009 by KOSAKI Motohiro Committed by Linus Torvalds Sep 22, 2009

vmscan: kill unnecessary prefetch



The pages in the list passed move_active_pages_to_lru() are already
touched by shrink_active_list().  IOW the prefetch in
move_active_pages_to_lru() don't populate any cache.  it's pointless.

This patch remove it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 74a1c48f

mm/vmscan.c

+0 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1273,7 +1273,6 @@ static void move_active_pages_to_lru(struct zone *zone,

		while (!list_empty(list)) {
		page = lru_to_page(list);
		prefetchw_prev_lru_page(page, list, flags);

		VM_BUG_ON(PageLRU(page));
		SetPageLRU(page);