netdev - Re: [PATCH v7 05/24] mm: devmap: refactor 1-based refcounting for ZONE

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Date:   Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:54:53 -0800
From:   John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
CC:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 05/24] mm: devmap: refactor 1-based refcounting for
 ZONE_DEVICE pages

On 11/21/19 12:05 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> So while this looks correct and I still really don't see the major
> benefit of the new code organization, especially as it bloats all
> put_page callers.
> 
> I'd love to see code size change stats for an allyesconfig on this
> commit.
> 

Right, I'm running that now, will post the results. (btw, if there is
a script and/or standard format I should use, I'm all ears. I'll dig
through lwn...)



thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA