From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6DCC6B006E for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2011 03:48:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4EAFA429.9060103@openvz.org> Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:47:53 +0400 From: Konstantin Khlebnikov MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: add free_hot_cold_page_list helper References: <20110729075837.12274.58405.stgit@localhost6> <20111031131448.c6d6d458.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20111031131448.c6d6d458.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Minchan Kim , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:48:46 +0900 > Minchan Kim wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Konstantin Khlebnikov >> wrote: >>> This patch adds helper free_hot_cold_page_list() to free list of 0-order pages. >>> It frees pages directly from list without temporary page-vector. >>> It also calls trace_mm_pagevec_free() to simulate pagevec_free() behaviour. >>> >>> bloat-o-meter: >>> >>> add/remove: 1/1 grow/shrink: 1/3 up/down: 267/-295 (-28) >>> function old new delta >>> free_hot_cold_page_list - 264 +264 >>> get_page_from_freelist 2129 2132 +3 >>> pagevec_free 243 239 -4 >>> split_free_page 380 373 -7 >>> release_pages 606 510 -96 >>> free_page_list 188 - -188 >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov >>> --- >>> include/linux/gfp.h | 1 + >>> mm/page_alloc.c | 12 ++++++++++++ >>> mm/swap.c | 14 +++----------- >>> mm/vmscan.c | 20 +------------------- >>> 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h >>> index cb40892..dd7b9cc 100644 >>> --- a/include/linux/gfp.h >>> +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h >>> @@ -358,6 +358,7 @@ void *alloc_pages_exact_nid(int nid, size_t size, gfp_t gfp_mask); >>> extern void free_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order); >>> extern void free_pages(unsigned long addr, unsigned int order); >>> extern void free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, int cold); >>> +extern void free_hot_cold_page_list(struct list_head *list, int cold); >>> >>> #define free_page(page) free_pages((page), 0) >>> #define free_page(addr) free_pages((addr), 0) >>> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c >>> index 1dbcf88..af486e4 100644 >>> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c >>> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c >>> @@ -1209,6 +1209,18 @@ out: >>> local_irq_restore(flags); >>> } >>> >>> +void free_hot_cold_page_list(struct list_head *list, int cold) >>> +{ >>> + struct page *page, *next; >>> + >>> + list_for_each_entry_safe(page, next, list, lru) { >>> + trace_mm_pagevec_free(page, cold); >> >> >> I understand you want to minimize changes without breaking current ABI >> with trace tools. >> But apparently, It's not a pagvec_free. It just hurts readability. >> As I take a look at the code, mm_pagevec_free isn't related to pagevec >> but I guess it can represent 0-order pages free because 0-order pages >> are freed only by pagevec until now. >> So, how about renaming it with mm_page_free or mm_page_free_zero_order? >> If you do, you need to do s/MM_PAGEVEC_FREE/MM_FREE_FREE/g in >> trace-pagealloc-postprocess.pl. >> >> >>> + free_hot_cold_page(page, cold); >>> + } >>> + >>> + INIT_LIST_HEAD(list); >> >> Why do we need it? > > My email has been horrid for a couple of months (fixed now), so I might > have missed any reply to Minchin's review comments? > Sorry, I forget about this patch. v2 sended. -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org