linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 1/6] percpu: fix a comment about the chunks ordering

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Message-ID: <20210408035736.883861-2-guro@fb.com>
Date:   Wed, 7 Apr 2021 20:57:31 -0700
From:   Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
To:     Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>
CC:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/6] percpu: fix a comment about the chunks ordering

Since the commit 3e54097beb22 ("percpu: manage chunks based on
contig_bits instead of free_bytes") chunks are sorted based on the
size of the biggest continuous free area instead of the total number
of free bytes. Update the corresponding comment to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
---
 mm/percpu.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
index 6596a0a4286e..2f27123bb489 100644
--- a/mm/percpu.c
+++ b/mm/percpu.c
@@ -99,7 +99,10 @@
 
 #include "percpu-internal.h"
 
-/* the slots are sorted by free bytes left, 1-31 bytes share the same slot */
+/*
+ * The slots are sorted by the size of the biggest continuous free area.
+ * 1-31 bytes share the same slot.
+ */
 #define PCPU_SLOT_BASE_SHIFT		5
 /* chunks in slots below this are subject to being sidelined on failed alloc */
 #define PCPU_SLOT_FAIL_THRESHOLD	3
-- 
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