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

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Message-ID: <YHn8Ti01dAFnZPOd@google.com>
Date:   Fri, 16 Apr 2021 21:06:22 +0000
From:   Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
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
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] percpu: fix a comment about the chunks ordering

Hello,

On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 08:57:31PM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> 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
> -- 
> 2.30.2
> 

I've applied this to for-5.14.

Thanks,
Dennis