linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/hotplug: Optimize clear_hwpoisoned

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Date:   Fri, 2 Nov 2018 13:32:52 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/hotplug: Optimize clear_hwpoisoned_pages

On Fri 02-11-18 23:00:01, Balbir Singh wrote:
> In hot remove, we try to clear poisoned pages, but
> a small optimization to check if num_poisoned_pages
> is 0 helps remove the iteration through nr_pages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>

Makes sense to me. It would be great to actually have some number but
the optimization for the normal case is quite obvious.

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>

> ---
>  mm/sparse.c | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
> index 33307fc05c4d..16219c7ddb5f 100644
> --- a/mm/sparse.c
> +++ b/mm/sparse.c
> @@ -724,6 +724,16 @@ static void clear_hwpoisoned_pages(struct page *memmap, int nr_pages)
>  	if (!memmap)
>  		return;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * A further optimization is to have per section
> +	 * ref counted num_poisoned_pages, but that is going
> +	 * to need more space per memmap, for now just do
> +	 * a quick global check, this should speed up this
> +	 * routine in the absence of bad pages.
> +	 */
> +	if (atomic_long_read(&num_poisoned_pages) == 0)
> +		return;
> +
>  	for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
>  		if (PageHWPoison(&memmap[i])) {
>  			atomic_long_sub(1, &num_poisoned_pages);
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs