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Shutemov" , Magnus Karlsson , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Michael Ellerman , Michal Hocko , Mike Kravetz , Paul Mackerras , Shuah Khan , Vlastimil Babka , bpf@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML , Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 04/22] mm: devmap: refactor 1-based refcounting for ZONE_DEVICE pages Message-ID: <20200115152306.GA19546@infradead.org> References: <20200107224558.2362728-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com> <20200107224558.2362728-5-jhubbard@nvidia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200107224558.2362728-5-jhubbard@nvidia.com> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 02:45:40PM -0800, John Hubbard wrote: > An upcoming patch changes and complicates the refcounting and > especially the "put page" aspects of it. In order to keep > everything clean, refactor the devmap page release routines: >=20 > * Rename put_devmap_managed_page() to page_is_devmap_managed(), > and limit the functionality to "read only": return a bool, > with no side effects. >=20 > * Add a new routine, put_devmap_managed_page(), to handle > decrementing the refcount for ZONE_DEVICE pages. >=20 > * Change callers (just release_pages() and put_page()) to check > page_is_devmap_managed() before calling the new > put_devmap_managed_page() routine. This is a performance > point: put_page() is a hot path, so we need to avoid non- > inline function calls where possible. >=20 > * Rename __put_devmap_managed_page() to free_devmap_managed_page(), > and limit the functionality to unconditionally freeing a devmap > page. >=20 > This is originally based on a separate patch by Ira Weiny, which > applied to an early version of the put_user_page() experiments. > Since then, J=E9r=F4me Glisse suggested the refactoring described above= . I'm really not sold on this scheme. Note that I think it is particularly bad, but it also doesn't seem any better than what we had before, and it introduced quite a bit more code.