mm,vmacache: optimize overflow system-wide flushing
authorDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:47 +0000 (16:06 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:53:57 +0000 (16:53 -0700)
commit6b4ebc3a9078c5b7b8c4cf495a0b1d2d0e0bfe7a
treeb72fad03149fb8e21284558b636bb2a8faa88cb6
parent4f115147ff802267d0aa41e361c5aa5bd933d896
mm,vmacache: optimize overflow system-wide flushing

For single threaded workloads, we can avoid flushing and iterating through
the entire list of tasks, making the whole function a lot faster,
requiring only a single atomic read for the mm_users.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmacache.c