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From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, mel@csn.ul.ie, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm : kill combined_idx
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:31:39 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091221143139.7088a8d3.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1261366347-19232-1-git-send-email-shijie8@gmail.com>

On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:32:27 +0800
Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com> wrote:

> In more then half of all the cases, `page' is head of the buddy pair
> {page, buddy} in __free_one_page. That is because the allocation logic
> always picks the head of a chunk, and puts the rest back to the buddy system.
> 
> So calculating the combined page is not needed but waste some cycles in
> more then half of all the cases.Just do the calculation when `page' is
> bigger then the `buddy'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>

Hmm...As far as I remember, this code design was for avoiding "if".
Is this compare+jump is better than add+xor ?

Thanks,
-Kame

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-21  5:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-21  3:32 Huang Shijie
2009-12-21  5:31 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [this message]
2009-12-21 19:43   ` Mel Gorman
2009-12-22  3:11     ` Huang Shijie

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