Re: [PATCH v3 1/9] mm, hugetlb: move up the code which check availability of free huge page

Hillf Danton
2013-07-29T09:17:53Z

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> wrote:
> In this time we are holding a hugetlb_lock, so hstate values can't
> be changed. If we don't have any usable free huge page in this time,
> we don't need to proceede the processing. So move this code up.
>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
> Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>

> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index e2bfbf7..fc4988c 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -539,10 +539,6 @@ static struct page *dequeue_huge_page_vma(struct hstate *h,
> struct zoneref *z;
> unsigned int cpuset_mems_cookie;
>
> -retry_cpuset:
> - cpuset_mems_cookie = get_mems_allowed();
> - zonelist = huge_zonelist(vma, address,
> - htlb_alloc_mask, &mpol, &nodemask);
> /*
> * A child process with MAP_PRIVATE mappings created by their parent
> * have no page reserves. This check ensures that reservations are
> @@ -556,6 +552,11 @@ retry_cpuset:
> if (avoid_reserve && h->free_huge_pages - h->resv_huge_pages == 0)
> goto err;
>
> +retry_cpuset:
> + cpuset_mems_cookie = get_mems_allowed();
> + zonelist = huge_zonelist(vma, address,
> + htlb_alloc_mask, &mpol, &nodemask);
> +
> for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist,
> MAX_NR_ZONES - 1, nodemask) {
> if (cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall(zone, htlb_alloc_mask)) {
> @@ -574,7 +575,6 @@ retry_cpuset:
> return page;
>
> err:
> - mpol_cond_put(mpol);
> return NULL;
> }
>
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>