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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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