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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] [hugetlb] Introduce BASE_PAGES_PER_HPAGE constant
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:43:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070723124303.27b32989@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070713151631.17750.44881.stgit@kernel>

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:16:31 -0700
Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> wrote:


> In many places throughout the kernel, the expression
> (HPAGE_SIZE/PAGE_SIZE) is used to convert quantities in huge page
> units to a number of base pages. Reduce redundancy and make the code
> more readable by introducing a constant BASE_PAGES_PER_HPAGE whose
> name more clearly conveys the intended conversion.

It may be better to put in a generic way of determining the pages of a
compound page.

Usually

1 << compound_order(page) will do the trick.

See also 

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118236495611300&w=2

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-23 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-13 15:16 [PATCH 0/5] [RFC] Dynamic hugetlb pool resizing Adam Litke
2007-07-13 15:16 ` [PATCH 1/5] [hugetlb] Introduce BASE_PAGES_PER_HPAGE constant Adam Litke
2007-07-23 19:43   ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2007-07-23 19:52     ` Adam Litke
2007-07-13 15:16 ` [PATCH 2/5] [hugetlb] Account for hugepages as locked_vm Adam Litke
2007-07-13 15:16 ` [PATCH 3/5] [hugetlb] Move update_and_free_page so it can be used by alloc functions Adam Litke
2007-07-13 15:17 ` [PATCH 4/5] [hugetlb] Try to grow pool on alloc_huge_page failure Adam Litke
2007-07-13 15:17 ` [PATCH 5/5] [hugetlb] Try to grow pool for MAP_SHARED mappings Adam Litke
2007-07-13 20:05   ` Paul Jackson
2007-07-13 21:05     ` Adam Litke
2007-07-13 21:24       ` Ken Chen
2007-07-13 21:29       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-13 21:38         ` Ken Chen
2007-07-13 21:47           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-13 22:21           ` Paul Jackson
2007-07-13 21:38       ` Paul Jackson
2007-07-17 23:42         ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-07-18 14:44           ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-07-18 15:17             ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-07-18 16:02               ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-07-18 21:16                 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-07-18 21:40                   ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-07-19  1:52                 ` Paul Mundt
2007-07-20 20:35                   ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-07-20 20:53                     ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-07-20 21:12                       ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-07-21 16:57                     ` Paul Mundt
2007-07-13 23:15       ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-07-13 21:09     ` Ken Chen

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