From 7b1fe59793e61f826bef053107b57b23954833bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:39:34 -0800 Subject: 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 Cc: Lee Schermerhorn Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Robin Holt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/swapfile.c | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/swapfile.c') 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; } -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522