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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: hugetlb: bail out unmapping after serving reference page
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:06:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120222130659.d75b6f69.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJd=RBALNtedfq+PLPnGKd4i4D0mLiVPdW_7pWWopnSZNC_vqA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:35:34 +0800
Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> wrote:

> When unmapping given VM range, we could bail out if a reference page is
> supplied and it is unmapped, which is a minor optimization.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
> ---
> 
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c	Wed Feb 22 19:34:12 2012
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c	Wed Feb 22 19:50:26 2012
> @@ -2280,6 +2280,9 @@ void __unmap_hugepage_range(struct vm_ar
>  		if (pte_dirty(pte))
>  			set_page_dirty(page);
>  		list_add(&page->lru, &page_list);
> +
> +		if (page == ref_page)
> +			break;
>  	}
>  	spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
>  	flush_tlb_range(vma, start, end);

Perhaps add a little comment to this explaining what's going on?


It would be sufficient to do

	if (ref_page)
		break;

This is more efficient, and doesn't make people worry about whether
this value of `page' is the same as the one which
pte_page(huge_ptep_get()) earlier returned.

Why do we evaluate `page' twice inside that loop anyway?  And why do we
check for huge_pte_none() twice?  It looks all messed up.



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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-22 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-22 12:35 [PATCH] mm: hugetlb: bail out unmapping after serving reference page Hillf Danton
2012-02-22 21:06 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-02-23 13:05   ` Hillf Danton
2012-02-23 20:12     ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-21 21:00       ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-22 13:21         ` Hillf Danton

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