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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	nao.horiguchi@gmail.com, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	mingo@elte.hu, Xiexiuqi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>,
	Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>,
	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 11/12] mm: add the PCP interface
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 11:44:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55709C98.1030005@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55704CED.1020702@huawei.com>

On 06/04/2015 06:04 AM, Xishi Qiu wrote:
>  	spin_lock(&zone->lock);
>  	for (i = 0; i < count; ++i) {
> -		struct page *page = __rmqueue(zone, order, migratetype);
> +		struct page *page;
> +
> +		if (is_migrate_mirror(migratetype))
> +			page = __rmqueue_smallest(zone, order, migratetype);
> +		else
> +			page = __rmqueue(zone, order, migratetype);
>  		if (unlikely(page == NULL))
>  			break;

Why is this necessary/helpful?  The changelog doesn't tell me either. :(

Why was this code modified in stead of putting the changes in
__rmqueue() itself (like CMA did)?

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-04 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-04 12:54 [RFC PATCH 00/12] mm: mirrored memory support for page buddy allocations Xishi Qiu
2015-06-04 12:56 ` [RFC PATCH 01/12] mm: add a new config to manage the code Xishi Qiu
2015-06-08 11:52   ` Leon Romanovsky
2015-06-08 15:14     ` Luck, Tony
2015-06-08 16:36       ` Leon Romanovsky
2015-06-09  6:44   ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-09 10:10     ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-10  3:07       ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-04 12:57 ` [RFC PATCH 02/12] mm: introduce mirror_info Xishi Qiu
2015-06-04 16:57   ` Luck, Tony
2015-06-05  1:53     ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-09  6:48   ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-04 12:58 ` [RFC PATCH 03/12] mm: introduce MIGRATE_MIRROR to manage the mirrored, pages Xishi Qiu
2015-06-09  6:54   ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-04 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 04/12] mm: add mirrored pages to buddy system Xishi Qiu
2015-06-04 13:00 ` [RFC PATCH 05/12] mm: introduce a new zone_stat_item NR_FREE_MIRROR_PAGES Xishi Qiu
2015-06-04 13:01 ` [RFC PATCH 06/12] mm: add free mirrored pages info Xishi Qiu
2015-06-04 13:02 ` [RFC PATCH 07/12] mm: introduce __GFP_MIRROR to allocate mirrored pages Xishi Qiu
2015-06-09  7:01   ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-04 13:02 ` [RFC PATCH 08/12] mm: use mirrorable to switch allocate mirrored memory Xishi Qiu
2015-06-04 17:01   ` Luck, Tony
2015-06-04 18:41   ` Dave Hansen
2015-06-05  3:13     ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-09  7:06   ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-09 10:09     ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-10  3:09       ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-12  8:05   ` Naoya Horiguchi
2015-06-04 13:03 ` [RFC PATCH 09/12] mm: enable allocate mirrored memory at boot time Xishi Qiu
2015-06-04 13:04 ` [RFC PATCH 10/12] mm: add the buddy system interface Xishi Qiu
2015-06-04 17:09   ` Luck, Tony
2015-06-05  3:14     ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-09  7:12   ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-09 10:04     ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-10  3:06       ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-10 20:40         ` Luck, Tony
2015-06-15  8:47           ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-15 17:20             ` Luck, Tony
2015-06-16  0:31               ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-25  9:44         ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-25 23:54           ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-26  1:43             ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-26  8:34               ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-26 10:38                 ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-26 18:42                   ` Luck, Tony
2015-06-04 13:04 ` [RFC PATCH 11/12] mm: add the PCP interface Xishi Qiu
2015-06-04 18:44   ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2015-06-04 13:05 ` [RFC PATCH 12/12] mm: let slab/slub/slob use mirrored memory Xishi Qiu
2015-06-04 17:14   ` Luck, Tony
2015-06-12  8:42 ` [RFC PATCH 00/12] mm: mirrored memory support for page buddy allocations Naoya Horiguchi
2015-06-12  9:09   ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-12 19:03   ` Luck, Tony
2015-06-15  0:25     ` Naoya Horiguchi
2015-06-16  7:53 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-06-16  8:17   ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-16  9:46     ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-06-18  1:23       ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-18  5:58         ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-06-18  9:37           ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-18  9:55             ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-06-18 20:33               ` Luck, Tony
2015-06-19  1:36                 ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-19 18:42                   ` Luck, Tony

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