From: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: handle simple case in free_pcppages_bulk()
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:10:38 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikEigbPsNMqqkmixYbCfD7Dz12YMcW2+GZbhUQq@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1297338408-3590-1-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com>
Hello Namhyung,
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> wrote:
> Now I'm seeing that there are some cases to free all pages in a
> pcp lists. In that case, just frees all pages in the lists instead
> of being bothered with round-robin lists traversal.
I though about that but I didn't send the patch.
That's because many cases which calls free_pcppages_bulk(,
pcp->count,..) are slow path so it adds comparison overhead on fast
path while it loses the effectiveness in slow path.
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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-10 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-10 11:46 Namhyung Kim
2011-02-10 13:10 ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2011-02-10 13:18 ` Namhyung Kim
2011-02-10 13:38 ` Minchan Kim
2011-02-10 13:53 ` Namhyung Kim
2011-02-10 14:05 ` Mel Gorman
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