On 2016/9/22 5:21, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2016, zijun_hu wrote:
>
>> From: zijun_hu <zijun_hu@xxxxxxx>
>>
>> correct lazy_max_pages() return value if the number of online
>> CPUs is power of 2
>>
>> Signed-off-by: zijun_hu <zijun_hu@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> mm/vmalloc.c | 4 +++-
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
>> index a125ae8..2804224 100644
>> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
>> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
>> @@ -594,7 +594,9 @@ static unsigned long lazy_max_pages(void)
>> {
>> unsigned int log;
>>
>> - log = fls(num_online_cpus());
>> + log = num_online_cpus();
>> + if (log > 1)
>> + log = (unsigned int)get_count_order(log);
>>
>> return log * (32UL * 1024 * 1024 / PAGE_SIZE);
>> }
>
> The implementation of lazy_max_pages() is somewhat arbitrarily defined,
> the existing approximation has been around for eight years and
> num_online_cpus() isn't intended to be rounded up to the next power of 2.
> I'd be inclined to just leave it as it is.
>
do i understand the intent in current code logic as below ?
[8, 15) roundup to 16?
[32, 63) roundup to 64?
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