From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754152AbbAEOWv (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2015 09:22:51 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:54174 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753248AbbAEOWs (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2015 09:22:48 -0500 Message-ID: <54AA9E09.7040308@suse.cz> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:22:01 +0100 From: Vlastimil Babka User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , David Rientjes , Johannes Weiner , Joonsoo Kim , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Mel Gorman , Michal Hocko , Minchan Kim , Rik van Riel , Zhang Yanfei Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 0/4] Reducing parameters of alloc_pages* family of functions References: <1418400805-4661-1-git-send-email-vbabka@suse.cz> <20141218132619.4e6b349d0aa1744c41f985c7@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20141218132619.4e6b349d0aa1744c41f985c7@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/18/2014 10:26 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:13:21 +0100 Vlastimil Babka wrote: > >> Vlastimil Babka (4): >> mm: set page->pfmemalloc in prep_new_page() >> mm, page_alloc: reduce number of alloc_pages* functions' parameters >> mm: reduce try_to_compact_pages parameters >> mm: microoptimize zonelist operations > > That all looks pretty straightforward. It would be nice to have a > summary of the code-size and stack-usage changes for the whole > patchset. OK > Can we move `struct alloc_context' into mm/internal.h? Only if we moved also try_to_compact_pages() declaration from include/linux/compaction.h to mm/internal.h. I guess it's not a bad idea, as it's a MM-only function and mm/internal.h already contains compaction stuff. > I pity the poor schmuck who has to maintain this patchset for 2 months. > [2/4] already throws a large pile of rejects against page_alloc.c so > can you please refresh/retest/resend? Right :) Vlastimil