Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] mm/free_pcppages_bulk: update pcp->count inside

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On 03/01/2018 07:28 AM, Aaron Lu wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox found that all callers of free_pcppages_bulk() currently
> update pcp->count immediately after so it's natural to do it inside
> free_pcppages_bulk().
> 
> No functionality or performance change is expected from this patch.

Well, it's N decrements instead of one decrement by N / assignment of
zero. But I assume the difference is negligible anyway, right?

> Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c | 10 +++-------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index cb416723538f..faa33eac1635 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -1148,6 +1148,7 @@ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zone *zone, int count,
>  			page = list_last_entry(list, struct page, lru);
>  			/* must delete as __free_one_page list manipulates */
>  			list_del(&page->lru);
> +			pcp->count--;
>  
>  			mt = get_pcppage_migratetype(page);
>  			/* MIGRATE_ISOLATE page should not go to pcplists */
> @@ -2416,10 +2417,8 @@ void drain_zone_pages(struct zone *zone, struct per_cpu_pages *pcp)
>  	local_irq_save(flags);
>  	batch = READ_ONCE(pcp->batch);
>  	to_drain = min(pcp->count, batch);
> -	if (to_drain > 0) {
> +	if (to_drain > 0)
>  		free_pcppages_bulk(zone, to_drain, pcp);
> -		pcp->count -= to_drain;
> -	}
>  	local_irq_restore(flags);
>  }
>  #endif
> @@ -2441,10 +2440,8 @@ static void drain_pages_zone(unsigned int cpu, struct zone *zone)
>  	pset = per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu);
>  
>  	pcp = &pset->pcp;
> -	if (pcp->count) {
> +	if (pcp->count)
>  		free_pcppages_bulk(zone, pcp->count, pcp);
> -		pcp->count = 0;
> -	}
>  	local_irq_restore(flags);
>  }
>  
> @@ -2668,7 +2665,6 @@ static void free_unref_page_commit(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn)
>  	if (pcp->count >= pcp->high) {
>  		unsigned long batch = READ_ONCE(pcp->batch);
>  		free_pcppages_bulk(zone, batch, pcp);
> -		pcp->count -= batch;
>  	}
>  }
>  
> 




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