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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, Ury Stankevich <urykhy@gmail.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: compaction: Abort compaction if too many pages are isolated and caller is asynchronous
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 15:55:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110606145517.GG5247@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110606123851.GA12887@random.random>

On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 02:38:51PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:39:24AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > Well spotted.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
> > 
> > Minor nit. swapper_space is rarely referred to outside of the swap
> > code. Might it be more readable to use
> > 
> > 	/*
> > 	 * swapcache is accounted as NR_FILE_PAGES but it is not
> > 	 * accounted as NR_SHMEM
> > 	 *
> > 	if (PageSwapBacked(page) && !PageSwapCache(page))
> 
> I thought the comparison on swapper_space would be faster as it was
> immediate vs register in CPU, instead of forcing a memory
> access. Otherwise I would have used the above. Now the test_bit is
> written in C and lockless so it's not likely to be very different
> considering the cacheline is hot in the CPU but it's still referencing
> memory instead register vs immediate comparison.

Ok, I had not considered that. That is a micro-optimisation but it's
there. I thought my version is more readable and migration is not
really a fast path but yours is still better.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-06 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-30 13:13 [PATCH] mm: compaction: Abort compaction if too many pages are isolated and caller is asynchronous Mel Gorman
2011-05-30 14:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-05-30 15:37   ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-30 16:55     ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-30 17:53       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-05-31 12:16         ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-31 12:24           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-05-31 13:33             ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-31 14:14               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-05-31 14:37                 ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-31 14:38                   ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-02 18:23                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-02 20:21                       ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-02 20:59                         ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-02 22:03                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-02 21:40                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-02 22:23                           ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-02 22:32                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-02 23:01                               ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-03 17:37                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-03 18:07                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-04  7:59                                     ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-06 10:32                                     ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-06 12:49                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-06 14:47                                         ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-06 14:07                                       ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-06 10:15                                 ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-06 10:26                                   ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-06 14:01                                   ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-06 14:26                                   ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-02 23:02                       ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-01  0:57                 ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-01  9:24                   ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-01 17:58                   ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-01 19:15                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-01 21:40                       ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-01 23:30                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-02  1:03                           ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-02  8:34                             ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-02 13:29                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-02 14:50                               ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-02 15:37                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-03  2:09                                   ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-03 14:49                                     ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-03 15:45                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-04  7:25                                         ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-06 10:39                                         ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-06 12:38                                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-06 14:55                                             ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2011-06-06 14:19                                           ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-06 22:32                                         ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-04  6:58                                       ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-06 10:43                                         ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-06 12:40                                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-06 13:27                                             ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-06 13:23                                           ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-31 14:34         ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-30 14:45 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2011-05-30 16:14 ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-31  8:32   ` Mel Gorman
2011-05-31  4:48 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-05-31  5:38   ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-31  7:14 ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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