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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: don't invoke __alloc_pages_direct_compact when order 0
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2012/7/7 David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>:
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2012, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
>
>> __alloc_pages_direct_compact has many arguments so invoking it is very costly.
>> And in almost invoking case, order is 0, so return immediately.
>>
>
> If "zero cost" is "very costly", then this might make sense.
>
> __alloc_pages_direct_compact() is inlined by gcc.

In my kernel image, __alloc_pages_direct_compact() is not inlined by gcc.
So I send this patch.
But, currently I think it is not useful, so drop it.

Thanks for comments.


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