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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Roman Gushchin <guroan@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	kernel-team@fb.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] vmalloc enhancements
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:47:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190212184724.GA18339@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190212175648.28738-1-guro@fb.com>

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 09:56:45AM -0800, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> The patchset contains few changes to the vmalloc code, which are
> leading to some performance gains and code simplification.
> 
> Also, it exports a number of pages, used by vmalloc(),
> in /proc/meminfo.
> 
> Patch (1) removes some redundancy on __vunmap().
> Patch (2) separates memory allocation and data initialization
>   in alloc_vmap_area()
> Patch (3) adds vmalloc counter to /proc/meminfo.
> 
> v2->v1:
>   - rebased on top of current mm tree
>   - switch from atomic to percpu vmalloc page counter

I don't understand what prompted this change to percpu counters.

All writers already write vmap_area_lock and vmap_area_list, so it's
not really saving much. The for_each_possible_cpu() for /proc/meminfo
on the other hand is troublesome.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-12 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20190212175648.28738-1-guro@fb.com>
2019-02-12 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mm: refactor __vunmap() to avoid duplicated call to find_vm_area() Roman Gushchin
2019-02-12 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] mm: separate memory allocation and actual work in alloc_vmap_area() Roman Gushchin
2019-02-12 17:56 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] mm: show number of vmalloc pages in /proc/meminfo Roman Gushchin
2019-02-12 18:47 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2019-02-12 20:34   ` [PATCH v2 0/3] vmalloc enhancements Andrew Morton
2019-02-12 22:36     ` Roman Gushchin
2019-02-13 20:26       ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-14  0:38     ` Roman Gushchin

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