linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 20/35] Use a pre-calculated value for num_online

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0903181508030.10154@qirst.com>
Date:	Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:10:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
cc:	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>,
	Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/35] Use a pre-calculated value for
 num_online_nodes()

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Mel Gorman wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:58:02PM -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Mel Gorman wrote:
> >
> > > Naming has never been great, but in this case the static value is a
> > > direct replacement of num_online_nodes(). I think having a
> > > similarly-named-but-still-different name obscures more than it helps.
> >
> > Creates a weird new name. Please use nr_online_nodes. Its useful elsewhere
> > too.
> >
>
> Ok, I'm dropping this patch for the first pass altogether and will deal
> with it later.

This is important infrastructure stuff. num_online_nodes is used in a
couple of other places where it could be replaced by nr_online_nodes.

7 grufile.c     gru_get_config_info          181 if (num_online_nodes() > 1 &&
8 grufile.c     gru_get_config_info          187 info.nodes = num_online_nodes();
9 hugetlb.c     return_unused_surplus_pages  878 unsigned long remaining_iterations = num_online_nodes();
a hugetlb.c     return_unused_surplus_pages  907 remaining_iterations = num_online_nodes();
b page_alloc.c  MAX_NODE_LOAD               2115 #define MAX_NODE_LOAD (num_online_nodes())
c page_alloc.c  build_zonelists             2324 load = num_online_nodes();
d page_alloc.c  build_all_zonelists         2475 num_online_nodes(),
e slub.c        list_locations              3651 if (num_online_nodes() > 1 && !nodes_empty(l->nodes) &&
f svc.c         svc_pool_map_choose_mode     127 if (num_online_nodes() > 1) {

In other places its avoided because deemed to be too expensive.

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