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Message-ID: <20160427124136.GJ2858@techsingularity.net>
Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2016 13:41:36 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm, page_alloc: pull out side effects from
 free_pages_check

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 02:01:15PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> Check without side-effects should be easier to maintain. It also removes the
> duplicated cpupid and flags reset done in !DEBUG_VM variant of both
> free_pcp_prepare() and then bulkfree_pcp_prepare(). Finally, it enables
> the next patch.
> 

Hmm, now the cpuid and flags reset is done in multiple places. While
this is potentially faster, it goes against the comment "I don't like the
duplicated code in free_pcp_prepare() from maintenance perspective".

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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