linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: handle simple case in free_pcppages

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Message-ID: <AANLkTikEigbPsNMqqkmixYbCfD7Dz12YMcW2+GZbhUQq@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:10:38 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
To:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: handle simple case in free_pcppages_bulk()

Hello Namhyung,

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com> wrote:
> Now I'm seeing that there are some cases to free all pages in a
> pcp lists. In that case, just frees all pages in the lists instead
> of being bothered with round-robin lists traversal.

I though about that but I didn't send the patch.
That's because many cases which calls free_pcppages_bulk(,
pcp->count,..) are slow path so it adds comparison overhead on fast
path while it loses the effectiveness in slow path.

-- 
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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