linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] change alloc function in __vmalloc_area

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Date:	Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:33:22 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Bob Liu <lliubbo@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] change alloc function in __vmalloc_area_node

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:22 AM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
<kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:25:02 +0900
> Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com> wrote:
>
>> __vmalloc_area_node never pass -1 to alloc_pages_node.
>> It means node's validity check is unnecessary.
>> So we can use alloc_pages_exact_node instead of alloc_pages_node.
>> It could avoid comparison and branch as 6484eb3e2a81807722 tried.
>>
>> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
>
> But, in another thinking,
>
> -       if (node < 0)
> -               page = alloc_page(gfp_mask);
>
> may be better ;)

I thought it.
but alloc_page is different function with alloc_pages_node in NUMA.
It calls alloc_pages_current.


-- 
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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