Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 08 Aug 2014 17:27:15 +0200 | From | Vlastimil Babka <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/6] mm: page_alloc: Reduce cost of the fair zone allocation policy |
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On 07/09/2014 10:13 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c > @@ -1604,6 +1604,9 @@ again: > } > > __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ALLOC_BATCH, -(1 << order));
This can underflow zero, right?
> + if (zone_page_state(zone, NR_ALLOC_BATCH) == 0 &&
AFAICS, zone_page_state will correct negative values to zero only for CONFIG_SMP. Won't this check be broken on !CONFIG_SMP?
I just stumbled upon this when trying to optimize the function. I didn't check how rest of the design copes with negative NR_ALLOC_BATCH values.
> + !zone_is_fair_depleted(zone)) > + zone_set_flag(zone, ZONE_FAIR_DEPLETED); > > __count_zone_vm_events(PGALLOC, zone, 1 << order); > zone_statistics(preferred_zone, zone, gfp_flags); > @@ -1915,6 +1918,18 @@ static bool zone_allows_reclaim(struct zone *local_zone, struct zone *zone) > > #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA */ >
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