linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/10] mm/page_alloc: remove unlikely macro on free_one

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Message-ID: <53B697FE.1040405@suse.cz>
Date:	Fri, 04 Jul 2014 14:03:10 +0200
From:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] mm/page_alloc: remove unlikely macro on free_one_page()

On 07/04/2014 09:57 AM, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> Isolation is really rare case so !is_migrate_isolate() is
> likely case. Remove unlikely macro.

Good catch. Why not replace it with likely then? Any difference in the assembly?

> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 8dac0f0..0d4cf7a 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ static void free_one_page(struct zone *zone,
>  	zone->pages_scanned = 0;
>  
>  	__free_one_page(page, pfn, zone, order, migratetype);
> -	if (unlikely(!is_migrate_isolate(migratetype)))
> +	if (!is_migrate_isolate(migratetype))
>  		__mod_zone_freepage_state(zone, 1 << order, migratetype);
>  	spin_unlock(&zone->lock);
>  }
> 

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