Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759418AbZDXNHA (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:07:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753422AbZDXNGw (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:06:52 -0400 Received: from gir.skynet.ie ([193.1.99.77]:33527 "EHLO gir.skynet.ie" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752802AbZDXNGv (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:06:51 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:06:48 +0100 From: Mel Gorman To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, cl@linux-foundation.org, npiggin@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ming.m.lin@intel.com, yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com, peterz@infradead.org, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/22] Update NR_FREE_PAGES only as necessary Message-ID: <20090424130648.GI14283@csn.ul.ie> References: <1240408407-21848-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <1240408407-21848-20-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <20090423160610.a093ddf0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090423160610.a093ddf0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1793 Lines: 57 On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 04:06:10PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:53:24 +0100 > Mel Gorman wrote: > > > When pages are being freed to the buddy allocator, the zone > > NR_FREE_PAGES counter must be updated. In the case of bulk per-cpu page > > freeing, it's updated once per page. This retouches cache lines more > > than necessary. Update the counters one per per-cpu bulk free. > > > > ... > > > > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c > > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c > > @@ -460,7 +460,6 @@ static inline void __free_one_page(struct page *page, > > int migratetype) > > { > > unsigned long page_idx; > > - int order_size = 1 << order; > > > > if (unlikely(PageCompound(page))) > > if (unlikely(destroy_compound_page(page, order))) > > @@ -470,10 +469,9 @@ static inline void __free_one_page(struct page *page, > > > > page_idx = page_to_pfn(page) & ((1 << MAX_ORDER) - 1); > > > > - VM_BUG_ON(page_idx & (order_size - 1)); > > + VM_BUG_ON(page_idx & ((1 << order) - 1)); > > VM_BUG_ON(bad_range(zone, page)); > > > > > > Is this all a slow and obscure way of doing > > VM_BUG_ON(order > MAX_ORDER); > > ? Nope. > > If not, what _is_ it asserting? > That the page is properly placed. The start of the page being freed has to be size-of-page-aligned. If it isn't the calculation that works out where the buddy is will break. -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/