linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/25] ia64: Preemptible mmu

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Date:	Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:12:56 -0800
From:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>,
	Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/25] ia64: Preemptible mmu_gather

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> wrote:
>  struct mmu_gather {
>        struct mm_struct        *mm;
>        unsigned int            nr;             /* == ~0U => fast mode */
> +       unsigned int            max;
>        unsigned char           fullmm;         /* non-zero means full mm flush */
>        unsigned char           need_flush;     /* really unmapped some PTEs? */
>        unsigned long           start_addr;
>        unsigned long           end_addr;
> -       struct page             *pages[FREE_PTE_NR];
> +       struct page             **pages;
> +       struct page             *local[8];
>  };

Overall it looks OK - builds, boots & runs too. One question about
the above bit ... why "8" elements in the local[] array?  This ought to be
a #define, maybe with a comment explaining the significance. It doesn't
seem to fill out struct mmu_gather to some "nice" size.  I can't think
of why batching 8 at a time (in the fallback cannot allocate **pages case)
is a good number. So is there some science to the choice, or did you
pluck 8 out of the air?

Thanks

-Tony
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