Do not check unpopulated zones for update If a zone is unpopulated then we do not need to check for pages that are to be drained and also not for vm counters that may need to be updated. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Index: linux-2.6.18-rc4/mm/page_alloc.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.18-rc4.orig/mm/page_alloc.c 2006-08-18 16:14:47.704697028 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.18-rc4/mm/page_alloc.c 2006-08-18 16:14:48.554253927 -0700 @@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ static int rmqueue_bulk(struct zone *zon #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA /* * Called from the slab reaper to drain pagesets on a particular node that - * belong to the currently executing processor. + * belongs to the currently executing processor. * Note that this function must be called with the thread pinned to * a single processor. */ @@ -630,6 +630,9 @@ void drain_node_pages(int nodeid) struct zone *zone = NODE_DATA(nodeid)->node_zones + z; struct per_cpu_pageset *pset; + if (!populated_zone(zone)) + continue; + pset = zone_pcp(zone, smp_processor_id()); for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(pset->pcp); i++) { struct per_cpu_pages *pcp; Index: linux-2.6.18-rc4/mm/vmstat.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.18-rc4.orig/mm/vmstat.c 2006-08-06 11:20:11.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.18-rc4/mm/vmstat.c 2006-08-18 16:33:43.280046497 -0700 @@ -268,6 +268,9 @@ void refresh_cpu_vm_stats(int cpu) for_each_zone(zone) { struct per_cpu_pageset *pcp; + if (!populated_zone(zone)) + continue; + pcp = zone_pcp(zone, cpu); for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS; i++)