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From: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mhocko@suse.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: call set_pageblock_order() once for each node
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 09:02:43 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180330010243.GA14446@WeideMacBook-Pro.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180329121109.xg5tfk6dyqzkrgrh@suse.de>

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 01:11:09PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:36:07AM +0800, Wei Yang wrote:
>> set_pageblock_order() is a standalone function which sets pageblock_order,
>> while current implementation calls this function on each ZONE of each node
>> in free_area_init_core().
>> 
>> Since free_area_init_node() is the only user of free_area_init_core(),
>> this patch moves set_pageblock_order() up one level to invoke
>> set_pageblock_order() only once on each node.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
>
>The patch looks ok but given that set_pageblock_order returns immediately
>if it has already been called, I expect the benefit is marginal. Was any
>improvement in boot time measured?

No, I don't expect measurable improvement from this since the number of nodes
and zones are limited.

This is just a code refine from logic point of view.

>
>-- 
>Mel Gorman
>SUSE Labs

-- 
Wei Yang
Help you, Help me

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-30  1:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-29  3:36 Wei Yang
2018-03-29 12:11 ` Mel Gorman
2018-03-30  1:02   ` Wei Yang [this message]
2018-04-03  7:57     ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-04  1:27       ` Wei Yang
2018-04-05  9:55         ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-06  1:46           ` Wei Yang

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