Drop unused pages immediately If a page is encountered that is only referenced by the migration code then there is no reason to swap or migrate the page. Release the page by calling move_to_lru(). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Index: linux-2.6.15-rc1-mm1/mm/vmscan.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.15-rc1-mm1.orig/mm/vmscan.c 2005-11-17 15:59:07.000000000 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.15-rc1-mm1/mm/vmscan.c 2005-11-17 16:05:18.000000000 -0800 @@ -700,6 +700,11 @@ redo: list_for_each_entry_safe(page, page2, l, lru) { cond_resched(); + if (page_count(page) == 1) { + /* page was freed from under us. So we are done. */ + move_to_lru(page); + continue; + } /* * Skip locked pages during the first two passes to give the * functions holding the lock time to release the page. Later we