On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:46:20AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > Compactions free scanner acquires the zone->lock when checking for PageBuddy > pages and isolating them. It does this even if there are no PageBuddy pages > in the range. > > This patch defers acquiring the zone lock for as long as possible. In the > event there are no free pages in the pageblock then the lock will not be > acquired at all which reduces contention on zone->lock. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de> > Acked-by: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com> > ---
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