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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] Use add_page_to_lru_list() helper function
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:28:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1248074911.15751.8023.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090720143352.747E.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>

On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 14:37 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > > @@ -1241,7 +1241,6 @@ static void move_active_pages_to_lru(str
> > >  			spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
> > >  		}
> > >  	}
> > > -	__mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_LRU_BASE + lru, pgmoved);
> > >  	if (!is_active_lru(lru))
> > >  		__count_vm_events(PGDEACTIVATE, pgmoved);
> > >  }
> > 
> > This is a net loss, you introduce pgmoved calls to __inc_zone_state,
> > instead of the one __mod_zone_page_state() call.
> 
> max pgmoved is 32. 32 times __inc_zone_state() make 0 or 1 time
> atomic operation (not much than two).
> I don't think it reduce performance.

its not just atomics, count calls and branches too. It simply adds a ton
of code for no particular reason.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-20  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-16  8:37 [PATCH 1/5] move ClearPageActive from move_active_pages() to shrink_active_list() KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-07-16  8:38 ` [PATCH 2/5] Kill unnecessary page flag test KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-07-16  8:39 ` [PATCH 3/5] Kill unnecessary prefetch KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-07-16  8:40 ` [PATCH 4/5] Use add_page_to_lru_list() helper function KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-07-17 12:18   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-07-20  5:37     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-07-20  7:28       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-07-20 14:30         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-07-16  8:40 ` [PATCH 5/5] move PGDEACTIVATE modification to shrink_active_list() KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-07-16 17:14 ` [PATCH 1/5] move ClearPageActive from move_active_pages() " Johannes Weiner

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