From: "Michal Nazarewicz" <mina86@mina86.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org, Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] reuse __free_pages_exact() in __alloc_pages_exact()
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:29:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.vttl33xz3l0zgt@mnazarewicz-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110411220348.D0280E4D@kernel>
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:03:48 +0200, Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
wrote:
> diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~reuse-free-exact mm/page_alloc.c
> --- linux-2.6.git/mm/page_alloc.c~reuse-free-exact 2011-04-11
> 15:01:17.701822598 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.git-dave/mm/page_alloc.c 2011-04-11 15:01:17.713822594
> -0700
> @@ -2338,14 +2338,11 @@ struct page *__alloc_pages_exact(gfp_t g
> page = alloc_pages(gfp_mask, order);
> if (page) {
> - struct page *alloc_end = page + (1 << order);
> - struct page *used = page + nr_pages;
> + struct page *unused_start = page + nr_pages;
> + int nr_unused = (1 << order) - nr_pages;
How about unsigned long?
> split_page(page, order);
> - while (used < alloc_end) {
> - __free_page(used);
> - used++;
> - }
> + __free_pages_exact(unused_start, nr_unused);
> }
> return page;
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-12 10:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-11 22:03 [PATCH 1/3] rename alloc_pages_exact() Dave Hansen
2011-04-11 22:03 ` [PATCH 2/3] make new alloc_pages_exact() Dave Hansen
2011-04-11 22:22 ` Andrew Morton
2011-04-11 22:36 ` Dave Hansen
2011-04-11 22:42 ` Timur Tabi
2011-04-12 10:28 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-04-12 15:04 ` Dave Hansen
2011-04-12 15:58 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-04-13 23:23 ` Dave Hansen
2011-04-11 22:03 ` [PATCH 3/3] reuse __free_pages_exact() in __alloc_pages_exact() Dave Hansen
2011-04-12 10:29 ` Michal Nazarewicz [this message]
2011-04-12 15:24 ` Dave Hansen
2011-04-12 15:57 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-04-12 17:07 ` [PATCH 1/3] rename alloc_pages_exact() Namhyung Kim
2011-04-12 17:11 ` Dave Hansen
2011-04-14 20:01 Dave Hansen
2011-04-14 20:01 ` [PATCH 3/3] reuse __free_pages_exact() in __alloc_pages_exact() Dave Hansen
2011-04-14 22:00 ` David Rientjes
2011-04-14 22:07 ` Dave Hansen
2011-04-14 22:09 ` David Rientjes
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