Re: [PATCH 1/6] Remove node's validity check in alloc_pages

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On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:24:58AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> alloc_pages calls alloc_pages_node with numa_node_id().
> alloc_pages_node can't see nid < 0.
> 
> So we can use alloc_pages_exact_node instead of alloc_pages_node.
> It could avoid comparison and branch as 6484eb3e2a81807722 tried.
> 
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>

Makes sense.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  include/linux/gfp.h |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
> index 4c6d413..b65f003 100644
> --- a/include/linux/gfp.h
> +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
> @@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ extern struct page *alloc_page_vma(gfp_t gfp_mask,
>  			struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr);
>  #else
>  #define alloc_pages(gfp_mask, order) \
> -		alloc_pages_node(numa_node_id(), gfp_mask, order)
> +		alloc_pages_exact_node(numa_node_id(), gfp_mask, order)
>  #define alloc_page_vma(gfp_mask, vma, addr) alloc_pages(gfp_mask, 0)
>  #endif
>  #define alloc_page(gfp_mask) alloc_pages(gfp_mask, 0)
> -- 
> 1.7.0.5
> 

-- 
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab

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