linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm, page_alloc: pull out side effects from free_pages

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Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2016 15:00:36 +0200
From:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
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 04/27/2016 02:41 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> 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".

After patch 3/3 it's done only in free_pages_prepare() which I think is 
not that bad, even though it's two places there. Tail pages are already 
special in that function. And I thought that the fact it was done twice 
in !DEBUG_VM free path was actually not intentional, but a consequence 
of the side-effect being unexpected. But it's close to bike-shedding 
area so I don't insist. Anyway, overal I like the code after patch 3/3 
better than before 2/3.