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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [4/18] Add basic support for more than one hstate in
	hugetlbfs
From: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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With this patch you will call try_to_free_low on all registered page
sizes.  As written, when a user reduces the number of one page size, all
page sizes could be affected.  I don't think that's what you want to do.
Perhaps just call do_try_to_free_low() on the hstate in question.

On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 02:58 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
> 
> ---
>  mm/hugetlb.c |   15 +++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: linux/mm/hugetlb.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ linux/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -550,26 +550,33 @@ static unsigned int cpuset_mems_nr(unsig
> 
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
>  #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
> -static void try_to_free_low(unsigned long count)
> +static void do_try_to_free_low(struct hstate *h, unsigned long count)
>  {
> -	struct hstate *h = &global_hstate;
>  	int i;
> 
>  	for (i = 0; i < MAX_NUMNODES; ++i) {
>  		struct page *page, *next;
>  		struct list_head *freel = &h->hugepage_freelists[i];
>  		list_for_each_entry_safe(page, next, freel, lru) {
> -			if (count >= nr_huge_pages)
> +			if (count >= h->nr_huge_pages)
>  				return;
>  			if (PageHighMem(page))
>  				continue;
>  			list_del(&page->lru);
> -			update_and_free_page(page);
> +			update_and_free_page(h, page);
>  			h->free_huge_pages--;
>  			h->free_huge_pages_node[page_to_nid(page)]--;
>  		}
>  	}
>  }
> +
> +static void try_to_free_low(unsigned long count)
> +{
> +	struct hstate *h;
> +	for_each_hstate (h) {
> +		do_try_to_free_low(h, count);
> +	}
> +}
>  #else
>  static inline void try_to_free_low(unsigned long count)
>  {
> 
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-- 
Adam Litke - (agl at us.ibm.com)
IBM Linux Technology Center

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