Re: [Lhms-devel] [RFC] buddy allocator without bitmap [2/4]

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Aug 26 2004 - 19:38:39 EST


Hiroyuki KAMEZAWA <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In the previous version, I used SetPagePrivate()/ClearPagePrivate()/PagePrivate().
> But these are "atomic" operation and looks very slow.
> This is why I doesn't used these macros in this version.
>
> My previous version, which used set_bit/test_bit/clear_bit, shows very bad performance
> on my test, and I replaced it.

That's surprising. But if you do intend to use non-atomic bitops then
please add __SetPagePrivate() and __ClearPagePrivate()
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