Re: [PATCH 03/11] mm: mmzone: introduce zone_pfn_same_memmap()

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On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 03:35:03PM +0100, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
> >On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 05:43:10PM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> >>From: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
> >>index 6afae0e..09c9702 100644
> >>--- a/mm/compaction.c
> >>+++ b/mm/compaction.c
> >>@@ -111,7 +111,10 @@ skip:
> >>
> >> next:
> >> 		pfn += isolated;
> >>-		page += isolated;
> >>+		if (zone_pfn_same_memmap(pfn - isolated, pfn))
> >>+			page += isolated;
> >>+		else
> >>+			page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
> >> 	}
> 
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:19:53 +0100, Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Is this necessary?
> >
> >We are isolating pages, the largest of which is a MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES
> >page.  [...]
> 
> This is not true for CMA.
> 

To be clear, I'm referring to a single page being isolated here. It may
or may not be a high-order page but it's still going to be less then
MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES so you should be able check when a new block is
entered and pfn_to_page is necessary.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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