From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ee0-f51.google.com (mail-ee0-f51.google.com [74.125.83.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FD0C6B0037 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:05:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-ee0-f51.google.com with SMTP id c13so1840100eek.38 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2014 11:05:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zene.cmpxchg.org (zene.cmpxchg.org. [2a01:238:4224:fa00:ca1f:9ef3:caee:a2bd]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d5si41327468eei.88.2014.04.18.11.05.14 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 18 Apr 2014 11:05:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:05:12 -0400 From: Johannes Weiner Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/16] mm: page_alloc: Only check the zone id check if pages are buddies Message-ID: <20140418180512.GD29210@cmpxchg.org> References: <1397832643-14275-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> <1397832643-14275-8-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1397832643-14275-8-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Linux-MM , Linux-FSDevel On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 03:50:34PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > A node/zone index is used to check if pages are compatible for merging > but this happens unconditionally even if the buddy page is not free. Defer > the calculation as long as possible. Ideally we would check the zone boundary > but nodes can overlap. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Johannes Weiner -- 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