task_numa_work skips small VMAs. At the time the logic was to reduce the scanning overhead which was considerable. It is a dubious hack at best. It would make much more sense to cache where faults have been observed and only rescan those regions during subsequent PTE scans. Remove this hack as motivation to do it properly in the future.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index e259241..2d04112 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -1127,10 +1127,6 @@ void task_numa_work(struct callback_head *work) if (!vma_migratable(vma)) continue; - /* Skip small VMAs. They are not likely to be of relevance */ - if (vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start < HPAGE_SIZE) - continue; - do { start = max(start, vma->vm_start); end = ALIGN(start + (pages << PAGE_SHIFT), HPAGE_SIZE); -- 1.8.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
