Re: [PATCH 09/25] ia64: Preemptible mmu_gather

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On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 12:12 -0800, Tony Luck wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  struct mmu_gather {
> >        struct mm_struct        *mm;
> >        unsigned int            nr;             /* == ~0U => fast mode */
> > +       unsigned int            max;
> >        unsigned char           fullmm;         /* non-zero means full mm flush */
> >        unsigned char           need_flush;     /* really unmapped some PTEs? */
> >        unsigned long           start_addr;
> >        unsigned long           end_addr;
> > -       struct page             *pages[FREE_PTE_NR];
> > +       struct page             **pages;
> > +       struct page             *local[8];
> >  };
> 
> Overall it looks OK - builds, boots & runs too. One question about
> the above bit ... why "8" elements in the local[] array?  This ought to be
> a #define, maybe with a comment explaining the significance. It doesn't
> seem to fill out struct mmu_gather to some "nice" size.  I can't think
> of why batching 8 at a time (in the fallback cannot allocate **pages case)
> is a good number. So is there some science to the choice, or did you
> pluck 8 out of the air? 

Yeah, pretty much a random number small enough to make struct mmu_gather
fit on stack, the reason its not 1 is that a few more entries increase
performance a little and freeing more pages increases the chance the
page allocation works next time around.


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