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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: Move __vma_address() to internal.h to be inlined in huge_memory.c
On Thu, 12 Jun 2014, Waiman Long wrote:

> > > The vma_address() function which is used to compute the virtual address
> > > within a VMA is used only by 2 files in the mm subsystem - rmap.c and
> > > huge_memory.c. This function is defined in rmap.c and is inlined by
> > > its callers there, but it is also declared as an external function.
> > >
> > > However, the __split_huge_page() function which calls vma_address()
> > > in huge_memory.c is calling it as a real function call. This is not
> > > as efficient as an inlined function. This patch moves the underlying
> > > inlined __vma_address() function to internal.h to be shared by both
> > > the rmap.c and huge_memory.c file.
> > This increases huge_memory.o's text+data_bss by 311 bytes, which makes
> > me suspect that it is a bad change due to its increase of kernel cache
> > footprint.
> >
> > Perhaps we should be noinlining __vma_address()?
>
> On my test machine, I saw an increase of 144 bytes in the text segment
> of huge_memory.o. The size in size is caused by an increase in the size
> of the __split_huge_page function. When I remove the
>
> if (unlikely(is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)))
> pgoff = page->index << huge_page_order(page_hstate(page));
>
> check, the increase in size drops down to 24 bytes. As a THP cannot be
> a hugetlb page, there is no point in doing this check for a THP. I will
> update the patch to pass in an additional argument to disable this
> check for __split_huge_page.
>

I think we're seeking a reason or performance numbers that suggest
__vma_address() being inline is appropriate and so far we lack any such
evidence. Adding additional parameters to determine checks isn't going to
change the fact that it increases text size needlessly.


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