linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] zsmalloc: simplify init

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Date:	Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:41:07 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:	Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Seth Jennings <sjennings@...iantweb.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zsmalloc: simplify init_zspage free obj linking

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 04:58:50PM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> Change zsmalloc init_zspage() logic to iterate through each object on
> each of its pages, checking the offset to verify the object is on the
> current page before linking it into the zspage.
> 
> The current zsmalloc init_zspage free object linking code has logic
> that relies on there only being one page per zspage when PAGE_SIZE
> is a multiple of class->size.  It calculates the number of objects
> for the current page, and iterates through all of them plus one,
> to account for the assumed partial object at the end of the page.
> While this currently works, the logic can be simplified to just
> link the object at each successive offset until the offset is larger
> than PAGE_SIZE, which does not rely on PAGE_SIZE being a multiple of
> class->size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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