From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f42.google.com (mail-wm0-f42.google.com [74.125.82.42]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B77486B0269 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2016 06:13:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-wm0-f42.google.com with SMTP id a140so47136363wma.0 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2016 03:13:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from outbound-smtp03.blacknight.com (outbound-smtp03.blacknight.com. [81.17.249.16]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g5si23091232wmd.47.2016.04.12.03.13.39 for (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 12 Apr 2016 03:13:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail02.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.11]) by outbound-smtp03.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 484B598BBB for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:13:39 +0000 (UTC) From: Mel Gorman Subject: [PATCH 13/24] mm, page_alloc: Remove redundant check for empty zonelist Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 11:12:14 +0100 Message-Id: <1460455945-29644-14-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net> In-Reply-To: <1460455945-29644-1-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net> References: <1460455945-29644-1-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Vlastimil Babka , Linux-MM , LKML , Mel Gorman A check is made for an empty zonelist early in the page allocator fast path but it's unnecessary. The check after first_zones_zonelist call should catch that situation. Removing the first check is slower for machines with memoryless nodes but that is a corner case that can live with the overhead. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman --- mm/page_alloc.c | 8 -------- 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index df03ccc7f07c..e50e754ec9eb 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -3374,14 +3374,6 @@ __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, if (should_fail_alloc_page(gfp_mask, order)) return NULL; - /* - * Check the zones suitable for the gfp_mask contain at least one - * valid zone. It's possible to have an empty zonelist as a result - * of __GFP_THISNODE and a memoryless node - */ - if (unlikely(!zonelist->_zonerefs->zone)) - return NULL; - if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CMA) && ac.migratetype == MIGRATE_MOVABLE) alloc_flags |= ALLOC_CMA; -- 2.6.4 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org