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* [PATCH] mm: kill one if in loop of __free_pages_bootmem
@ 2013-07-23  2:17 Yinghai Lu
  2013-07-23  5:52 ` Johannes Weiner
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Yinghai Lu @ 2013-07-23  2:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton
  Cc: Johannes Weiner, Mel Gorman, linux-mm, linux-kernel, Yinghai Lu

We should not check loop+1 with loop end in loop body.
Just duplicate two lines code to avoid it.

That will help a bit when we have huge amount of pages on
system with 16TiB memory.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>

---
 mm/page_alloc.c |   14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -750,19 +750,19 @@ static void __free_pages_ok(struct page
 void __init __free_pages_bootmem(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
 {
 	unsigned int nr_pages = 1 << order;
+	struct page *p = page;
 	unsigned int loop;
 
-	prefetchw(page);
-	for (loop = 0; loop < nr_pages; loop++) {
-		struct page *p = &page[loop];
-
-		if (loop + 1 < nr_pages)
-			prefetchw(p + 1);
+	prefetchw(p);
+	for (loop = 0; loop < (nr_pages - 1); loop++, p++) {
+		prefetchw(p + 1);
 		__ClearPageReserved(p);
 		set_page_count(p, 0);
 	}
+	__ClearPageReserved(p);
+	set_page_count(p, 0);
 
-	page_zone(page)->managed_pages += 1 << order;
+	page_zone(page)->managed_pages += nr_pages;
 	set_page_refcounted(page);
 	__free_pages(page, order);
 }

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* Re: [PATCH] mm: kill one if in loop of __free_pages_bootmem
  2013-07-23  2:17 [PATCH] mm: kill one if in loop of __free_pages_bootmem Yinghai Lu
@ 2013-07-23  5:52 ` Johannes Weiner
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Johannes Weiner @ 2013-07-23  5:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Yinghai Lu; +Cc: Andrew Morton, Mel Gorman, linux-mm, linux-kernel

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 07:17:42PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> We should not check loop+1 with loop end in loop body.
> Just duplicate two lines code to avoid it.
> 
> That will help a bit when we have huge amount of pages on
> system with 16TiB memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>

Disassembly looks good, thanks!

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

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