Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: handle simple case in free_pcppages_bulk()

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2011-02-10 (ë), 22:10 +0900, Minchan Kim:
> Hello Namhyung,
> 

Hi Minchan,


> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Now I'm seeing that there are some cases to free all pages in a
> > pcp lists. In that case, just frees all pages in the lists instead
> > of being bothered with round-robin lists traversal.
> 
> I though about that but I didn't send the patch.
> That's because many cases which calls free_pcppages_bulk(,
> pcp->count,..) are slow path so it adds comparison overhead on fast
> path while it loses the effectiveness in slow path.
> 

Hmm.. How about adding unlikely() then? Doesn't it help much here?


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Regards,
Namhyung Kim


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