Re: [PATCH] hugetlb: Do not account hugetlb pages as NR_FILE_PAGES

[Michal Hocko]

On Fri 22-05-15 16:21:43, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 21-05-15 13:09:09, Johannes Weiner wrote:
[...]
> > This makes a lot of sense to me.  The only thing I worry about is the
> > proliferation of PageHuge(), a function call, in relatively hot paths.
> 
> I've tried that (see the patch below) but it enlarged the code by almost
> 1k
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>  510323   74273   44440  629036   9992c mm/built-in.o.before
>  511248   74273   44440  629961   99cc9 mm/built-in.o.after
> 
> I am not sure the code size increase is worth it. Maybe we can reduce
> the check to only PageCompound(page) as huge pages are no in the page
> cache (yet).

Just to prevent from confusion. I means to reduce the check only for
this particular case. But that is probably not worth the troubles
either...
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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