Re: [PATCH] remove zone_mem_map

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Tue Feb 21 2006 - 22:22:02 EST


Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:

This patch removes zone_mem_map.

Note that IA64 does not seem to depend on zone_mem_map...

Oh, yes. ia64 doesn't includes asm-generic/memory_model.h when DISCONTIGMEM.

Index: test/include/asm-generic/memory_model.h
===================================================================
--- test.orig/include/asm-generic/memory_model.h
+++ test/include/asm-generic/memory_model.h
@@ -47,9 +47,9 @@ extern unsigned long page_to_pfn(struct

#define page_to_pfn(pg) \
({ struct page *__pg = (pg); \
- struct zone *__zone = page_zone(__pg); \
- (unsigned long)(__pg - __zone->zone_mem_map) + \
- __zone->zone_start_pfn; \
+ struct pglist_data *__pgdat = NODE_DATA(page_to_nid(__pg)); \
+ (unsigned long)(__pg - __pgdat->node_mem_map) + \
+ __pgdat->node_start_pfn; \
})

NODE_DATA is an arch specific lookup, If it always is a table lookup
then the performance will be comparable to page_zone because that also involves one table lookup.

There are several types of NODE_DATA definitions.
1. #define NODE_DATA(node) (&node_data[node]) alpha,arm,
2. #define NODE_DATA(node) (node_data[node]) i386,powerpc,x86_64,m32r
3. #define NODE_DATA(node) (&node_data[node]->pgdat) parisc,mips
4. #define NODE_DATA(node) (per-cpu-page has node_data[nid] pointer array) ia64

BTW, ia64 looks very special. Does it make sensible performance gain ?

-- Kame

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