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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/6] tracing, page-allocator: Add trace events for page allocation and page freeing
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:50:30AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> wrote:
>
> > +TRACE_EVENT(mm_pagevec_free,
>
> > + TP_fast_assign(
> > + __entry->page = page;
> > + __entry->order = order;
> > + __entry->cold = cold;
> > + ),
>
> > - while (--i >= 0)
> > + while (--i >= 0) {
> > + trace_mm_pagevec_free(pvec->pages[i], 0, pvec->cold);
> > free_hot_cold_page(pvec->pages[i], pvec->cold);
> > + }
>
> Pagevec freeing has order 0 implicit, so you can further optimize
> this by leaving out the 'order' field and using this format string:
>
> + TP_printk("page=%p pfn=%lu order=0 cold=%d",
> + __entry->page,
> + page_to_pfn(__entry->page),
> + __entry->cold)
>
> the trace record becomes smaller by 4 bytes and the tracepoint
> fastpath becomes shorter as well.
>

Good point. It's fixed now.

--
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab


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