On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 01:41:51PM +0900, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for your review.
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:59:16AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 10:19:33AM +0900, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> ...
> > > @@ -770,11 +776,10 @@ static int free_pool_huge_page(struct hstate *h, nodemask_t *nodes_allowed,
> > > return ret;
> > > }
> > >
> > > -static struct page *alloc_buddy_huge_page(struct hstate *h,
> > > - struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address)
> > > +static struct page *alloc_buddy_huge_page(struct hstate *h, int nid)
> > > {
> > > struct page *page;
> > > - unsigned int nid;
> > > + unsigned int r_nid;
> > >
> >
> > Why the rename, just to avoid changing the value of a function parameter?
>
> I think it's better that a simple name is given to function parameter
> than to internal variable, because the former is paid more attention
> from other developers than the latter is.
>
Ok.
> > > if (h->order >= MAX_ORDER)
> > > return NULL;
> > > @@ -812,9 +817,14 @@ static struct page *alloc_buddy_huge_page(struct hstate *h,
> > > }
> > > spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
> > >
> > > - page = alloc_pages(htlb_alloc_mask|__GFP_COMP|
> > > - __GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOWARN,
> > > - huge_page_order(h));
> > > + if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE)
> > > + page = alloc_pages(htlb_alloc_mask|__GFP_COMP|
> > > + __GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOWARN,
> > > + huge_page_order(h));
> > > + else
> > > + page = alloc_pages_exact_node(nid,
> > > + htlb_alloc_mask|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_THISNODE|
> > > + __GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOWARN, huge_page_order(h));
> > >
> >
> > Why not just call alloc_pages_node()?
>
> Ah, we can bring together these two allocate functions.
> I'll do it.
>
> Here is a revised patch.
>
> Thanks,
> Naoya Horiguchi
> ---
> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:18:54 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH 02/10] hugetlb: add allocate function for hugepage migration
>
> We can't use existing hugepage allocation functions to allocate hugepage
> for page migration, because page migration can happen asynchronously with
> the running processes and page migration users should call the allocation
> function with physical addresses (not virtual addresses) as arguments.
>
> ChangeLog since v3:
> - unify alloc_buddy_huge_page() and alloc_buddy_huge_page_node()
> - bring together branched allocate functions
>
> ChangeLog since v2:
> - remove unnecessary get/put_mems_allowed() (thanks to David Rientjes)
>
> ChangeLog since v1:
> - add comment on top of alloc_huge_page_no_vma()
>
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
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Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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