Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] mm/vmstat: retrieve suitable free pageblock information just once

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On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 11:47:09AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 01/13/2017 08:14 AM, js1304@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > It's inefficient to retrieve buddy information for fragmentation index
> > calculation on every order. By using some stack memory, we could retrieve
> > it once and reuse it to compute all the required values. MAX_ORDER is
> > usually small enough so there is no big risk about stack overflow.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Sounds useful regardless of the rest of the series.
> 
> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

Thanks! I will submit this patch separately.

> 
> A nit below.
> 
> > ---
> >  mm/vmstat.c | 25 ++++++++++++-------------
> >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
> > index 7c28df3..e1ca5eb 100644
> > --- a/mm/vmstat.c
> > +++ b/mm/vmstat.c
> > @@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ unsigned long node_page_state(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
> >  struct contig_page_info {
> >  	unsigned long free_pages;
> >  	unsigned long free_blocks_total;
> > -	unsigned long free_blocks_suitable;
> > +	unsigned long free_blocks_order[MAX_ORDER];
> 
> No need to rename _suitable to _order IMHO. The meaning is still the
> same, it's just an array now. For me a name "free_blocks_order" would
> suggest it's just simple zone->free_area[order].nr_free.

Okay. Will fix.

Thanks.

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