linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 2/9] slab: move up code to get kmem_cache_node in free

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Date:	Tue,  1 Jul 2014 17:27:31 +0900
From:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...allels.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/9] slab: move up code to get kmem_cache_node in free_block()

node isn't changed, so we don't need to retreive this structure
everytime we move the object. Maybe compiler do this optimization,
but making it explicitly is better.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
---
 mm/slab.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index f8a0ed1..19e2136 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -3417,7 +3417,7 @@ static void free_block(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void **objpp, int nr_objects,
 		       int node)
 {
 	int i;
-	struct kmem_cache_node *n;
+	struct kmem_cache_node *n = get_node(cachep, node);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_objects; i++) {
 		void *objp;
@@ -3427,7 +3427,6 @@ static void free_block(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void **objpp, int nr_objects,
 		objp = objpp[i];
 
 		page = virt_to_head_page(objp);
-		n = get_node(cachep, node);
 		list_del(&page->lru);
 		check_spinlock_acquired_node(cachep, node);
 		slab_put_obj(cachep, page, objp, node);
-- 
1.7.9.5

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