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From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@techadventures.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: mhocko@suse.com, vbabka@suse.cz, Pavel.Tatashin@microsoft.com,
	sfr@canb.auug.org.au, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: Clean up check_for_memory
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 22:34:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180829203432.GA24978@techadventures.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180828143530.4b681bf9e0b3c03519fbe943@linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 02:35:30PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > First, we should only set N_HIGH_MEMORY in case we have
> > CONFIG_HIGHMEM.
> 
> Why?  Just a teeny optimization?

Hi Andrew,

Optimization was not really my point here, my point was to make
the code less subtle and more clear.
One may wonder why we set N_HIGH_MEMORY unconditionally when
__only__ CONFIG_HIGHMEM matters for this case, and why we set 
N_NORMAL_MEMORY __only__ for CONFIG_HIGHMEM when we should not care
about that at all.

I do not really expect a big impact here, mainly because check_for_memory
is only being used during boot.

-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-29 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-28 21:01 [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: Clean up check_for_memory Oscar Salvador
2018-08-28 21:35 ` Andrew Morton
2018-08-29 20:34   ` Oscar Salvador [this message]
2018-08-30  1:55 ` Pasha Tatashin
2018-08-31 12:24   ` Oscar Salvador
2018-08-31 14:04     ` Pasha Tatashin
2018-08-31 20:45       ` Oscar Salvador

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