Re: [RFC PATCH] mm/zsmalloc: remove unnecessary check

[Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@gmail.com>]

Hello Minchan

2014-11-21 18:32 GMT+08:00 Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 06:48:49AM +0000, Minchan Kim wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 01:33:26PM +0800, Ganesh Mahendran wrote:
>> > Hello
>> >
>> > 2014-11-21 11:54 GMT+08:00 Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>:
>> > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 09:21:56PM +0800, Mahendran Ganesh wrote:
>> > >> ZS_SIZE_CLASSES is calc by:
>> > >>   ((ZS_MAX_ALLOC_SIZE - ZS_MIN_ALLOC_SIZE) / ZS_SIZE_CLASS_DELTA + 1)
>> > >>
>> > >> So when i is in [0, ZS_SIZE_CLASSES - 1), the size:
>> > >>   size = ZS_MIN_ALLOC_SIZE + i * ZS_SIZE_CLASS_DELTA
>> > >> will not be greater than ZS_MAX_ALLOC_SIZE
>> > >>
>> > >> This patch removes the unnecessary check.
>> > >
>> > > It depends on ZS_MIN_ALLOC_SIZE.
>> > > For example, we would change min to 8 but MAX is still 4096.
>> > > ZS_SIZE_CLASSES is (4096 - 8) / 16 + 1 = 256 so 8 + 255 * 16 = 4088,
>> > > which exceeds the max.
>> > Here, 4088 is less than MAX(4096).
>> >
>> > ZS_SIZE_CLASSES = (MAX - MIN) / Delta + 1
>> > So, I think the value of
>> >     MIN + (ZS_SIZE_CLASSES - 1) * Delta =
>> >     MIN + ((MAX - MIN) / Delta) * Delta =
>> >     MAX
>> > will not exceed the MAX
>>
>> You're right. It was complext math for me.
>> I should go back to elementary school.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
>
> I catch a nasty cold but above my poor math makes me think more.
> ZS_SIZE_CLASSES is broken. In above my example, current code cannot
> allocate 4096 size class so we should correct ZS_SIZE_CLASSES
> at first.
>
> zs_size_classes = zs_max - zs_min / delta + 1;
> if ((zs_max - zs_min) % delta)
>         zs_size_classes += 1;
Yes, you are right.
When the zs_min is less than delta, we can not allocate PAGE_SIZE size class.

>
> Then, we need to code piece you removed.
> As well, we need to fix below.
>
> - area->vm_buf = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
> + area->vm_buf = kmalloc(ZS_MAX_ALLOC_SIZE);
If our purpose is to allocate the max obj size as len of PAGE_SIZE, we
do not need to
change this line. Since the ZS_MAX_ALLOC_SIZE will always be PAGE_SIZE

Thanks.

>
> Hope I am sane in this time :(

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