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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, mhocko@suse.com,
	mgorman@techsingularity.net, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: get pfn by page_to_pfn() instead of save in page->private
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 06:10:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181018131046.GA32429@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181018130429.37837-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 09:04:29PM +0800, Wei Yang wrote:
> This is not necessary to save the pfn to page->private.
> 
> The pfn could be retrieved by page_to_pfn() directly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
> ---
> Maybe I missed some critical reason to save pfn to private.
> 
> Thanks in advance if someone could reveal the special reason.

Performance.  Did you benchmark this?

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-18 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-18 13:04 [PATCH] mm: get pfn by page_to_pfn() instead of save in page->private Wei Yang
2018-10-18 13:10 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2018-10-18 13:15 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-18 14:10   ` Wei Yang
2018-10-18 16:30     ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-19  3:32       ` Wei Yang
2018-10-18 13:39 ` Mel Gorman
2018-10-18 14:19   ` Wei Yang
2018-10-18 14:53     ` Mel Gorman

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