On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:39:24AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Well spotted.
> 
> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
> 
> Minor nit. swapper_space is rarely referred to outside of the swap
> code. Might it be more readable to use
> 
>       /*
>        * swapcache is accounted as NR_FILE_PAGES but it is not
>        * accounted as NR_SHMEM
>        *
>       if (PageSwapBacked(page) && !PageSwapCache(page))

I thought the comparison on swapper_space would be faster as it was
immediate vs register in CPU, instead of forcing a memory
access. Otherwise I would have used the above. Now the test_bit is
written in C and lockless so it's not likely to be very different
considering the cacheline is hot in the CPU but it's still referencing
memory instead register vs immediate comparison.

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