linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: add the block to the tail of the list in expand()

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Date:	Sun, 02 Aug 2015 21:10:06 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:	Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, iamjoonsoo.kim@....com,
	alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com, sasha.levin@...cle.com,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: add the block to the tail of the list in expand()

On 08/02/2015 07:05 PM, Xishi Qiu wrote:
>> > Also, this might not do very much good in practice.  If you are
>> > splitting a high-order page, you are doing the split because the
>> > lower-order lists are empty.  So won't that list_add() be to an empty
> 
> I made a mistake, you are right, all the lower-order lists are empty,
> so it is no sense to add to the tail.

I actually tested this experimentally and the lists are not always
empty.  It's probably __rmqueue_smallest() vs. __rmqueue_fallback() logic.

In any case, you might want to double-check.
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