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From: "Michal Nazarewicz" <mina86@mina86.com>
To: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
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	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Jesse Barker <jesse.barker@linaro.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Shariq Hasnain <shariq.hasnain@linaro.org>,
	Chunsang Jeong <chunsang.jeong@linaro.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] mm: mmzone: introduce zone_pfn_same_memmap()
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:35:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.v6dr4pj43l0zgt@mpn-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111212141953.GD3277@csn.ul.ie>

> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 05:43:10PM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>> From: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
>> diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
>> index 6afae0e..09c9702 100644
>> --- a/mm/compaction.c
>> +++ b/mm/compaction.c
>> @@ -111,7 +111,10 @@ skip:
>>
>>  next:
>>  		pfn += isolated;
>> -		page += isolated;
>> +		if (zone_pfn_same_memmap(pfn - isolated, pfn))
>> +			page += isolated;
>> +		else
>> +			page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
>>  	}

On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:19:53 +0100, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> wrote:
> Is this necessary?
>
> We are isolating pages, the largest of which is a MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES
> page.  [...]

This is not true for CMA.

> That said, everywhere else managed to avoid checks like this by always
> scanning in units of pageblocks. Maybe this should be structured
> the same way to guarantee pfn_valid is called at least per pageblock
> (even though only once per MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES is necessary).

I'll look into that.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-12 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-18 16:43 [PATCHv17 0/11] Contiguous Memory Allocator Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 01/11] mm: page_alloc: handle MIGRATE_ISOLATE in free_pcppages_bulk() Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-12 13:42   ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 14:23     ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 14:42       ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 02/11] mm: compaction: introduce isolate_{free,migrate}pages_range() Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-12 14:07   ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 15:22     ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 16:30       ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 16:46         ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 17:20           ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 03/11] mm: mmzone: introduce zone_pfn_same_memmap() Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-12 14:19   ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 14:35     ` Michal Nazarewicz [this message]
2011-12-12 14:40       ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 14:51         ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 15:51           ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 04/11] mm: compaction: export some of the functions Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-12 14:29   ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 14:41     ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 15:40       ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 15:46         ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 16:22         ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 05/11] mm: page_alloc: introduce alloc_contig_range() Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 06/11] mm: mmzone: MIGRATE_CMA migration type added Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 07/11] mm: page_isolation: MIGRATE_CMA isolation functions added Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 08/11] drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 09/11] X86: integrate CMA with DMA-mapping subsystem Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 10/11] ARM: " Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 11/11] ARM: Samsung: use CMA for 2 memory banks for s5p-mfc device Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 21:20 ` [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCHv17 0/11] Contiguous Memory Allocator sandeep patil
2011-11-18 21:26   ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-11-18 23:30     ` sandeep patil
2011-11-19 18:09       ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-11-25 16:43 ` [PATCH] mm: cma: hack/workaround for some allocation issues Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-25 21:08   ` Michal Nazarewicz

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