The memblock array is in ascending order and we traverse the memblock array in reverse order so we can add some simple check to reduce the search work. Tejun fix a underflow bug in 5d53cb27d8, but I think we could break there for the same reason. Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Lin Feng <linfeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memblock.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c index 6259055..a710557 100644 --- a/mm/memblock.c +++ b/mm/memblock.c @@ -111,11 +111,18 @@ phys_addr_t __init_memblock memblock_find_in_range_node(phys_addr_t start, end = max(start, end); for_each_free_mem_range_reverse(i, nid, &this_start, &this_end, NULL) { + /* + * exclude the regions out of the candidate range, since it's + * likely to find a suitable range, we ignore the worst case. + */ + if (this_start >= end) + continue; + this_start = clamp(this_start, start, end); this_end = clamp(this_end, start, end); if (this_end < size) - continue; + break; cand = round_down(this_end - size, align); if (cand >= this_start) -- 1.7.11.7 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>