linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: don't use compound_head() in virt_to_head

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Date:	Mon, 5 Jan 2015 08:53:20 -0600 (CST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: don't use compound_head() in
 virt_to_head_page()

On Mon, 5 Jan 2015, Joonsoo Kim wrote:

> This patch implements compound_head_fast() which is similar with
> compound_head() except tail flag race handling. And then,
> virt_to_head_page() uses this optimized function to improve performance.

Yeah that is how it was before and how it should be

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
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