From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 21:49:30 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Do not disable interrupts when reading min_free_kbytes
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.22-rc1~973
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3b1d92c56514987010bb0201b5c71aeb633fc4f8;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-3.10.git

Do not disable interrupts when reading min_free_kbytes

The sysctl handler for min_free_kbytes calls setup_per_zone_pages_min() on
read or write.  This function iterates through every zone and calls
spin_lock_irqsave() on the zone LRU lock.  When reading min_free_kbytes,
this is a total waste of time that disables interrupts on the local
processor.  It might even be noticable machines with large numbers of zones
if a process started constantly reading min_free_kbytes.

This patch only calls setup_per_zone_pages_min() only on write. Tested on
an x86 laptop and it did the right thing.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index f564717..542fc08 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3199,7 +3199,8 @@ int min_free_kbytes_sysctl_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
 	struct file *file, void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
 {
 	proc_dointvec(table, write, file, buffer, length, ppos);
-	setup_per_zone_pages_min();
+	if (write)
+		setup_per_zone_pages_min();
 	return 0;
 }