Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 8/8] Fragmentation Avoidance V17: 008_stats

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Wed Oct 12 2005 - 06:57:55 EST


On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 16:13 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ALLOCSTAT
> + memset((unsigned long *)zone->fallback_count, 0,
> + sizeof(zone->fallback_count));
> + memset((unsigned long *)zone->alloc_count, 0,
> + sizeof(zone->alloc_count));
> + memset((unsigned long *)zone->alloc_count, 0,
> + sizeof(zone->alloc_count));
> + zone->kernnorclm_partial_steal=0;
> + zone->kernnorclm_full_steal=0;
> + zone->reserve_count[RCLM_NORCLM] =
> + realsize >> (MAX_ORDER-1);
> +#endif

The struct zone is part of the pgdat which is zeroed at boot-time on all
architectures and configuration that I have ever audited. Re-zeroing
parts of it here is unnecessary.

BTW, that '=0' with no spaces is anti-CodingStyle.

-- Dave

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