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SubjectRe: [rfc] optimise unlock_page
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 01:13:35PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
>
> Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > This patch trades a page flag for a significant improvement in the unlock_page
> > fastpath. Various problems in the previous version were spotted by Hugh and
> > Ben (and fixed in this one).
>
> It looks reasonable at first glance, though it does consume yet another page
> flag:-/ However, I think that's probably a worthy trade.

Well, that's the big question :)


> > }
> > -
> > +
> > +static inline void unlock_page(struct page *page)
> > +{
> > + VM_BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
> > + ClearPageLocked_Unlock(page);
> > + if (unlikely(PageWaiters(page)))
> > + __unlock_page(page);
> > +}
> > +
>
> Please don't simply discard the documentation, we have little enough as it is:

Oops, right.

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