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 f564717d22f342de91e84ecd1e71e0314e0f33a7..542fc088ff508b15bf1416dcd68c80e8c3fb2fac 100644 (file)
--- 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;
 }