Re: [PATCH 07/20] Simplify the check on whether cpusets are a factoror not

From: Pekka J Enberg
Date: Mon Feb 23 2009 - 02:14:19 EST


On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Mel Gorman wrote:
> The check whether cpuset contraints need to be checked or not is complex
> and often repeated. This patch makes the check in advance to the comparison
> is simplier to compute.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>

You can do that in a cleaner way by defining ALLOC_CPUSET to be zero when
CONFIG_CPUSETS is disabled. Something like following untested patch:

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 5675b30..18b687d 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1135,7 +1135,12 @@ failed:
#define ALLOC_WMARK_HIGH 0x08 /* use pages_high watermark */
#define ALLOC_HARDER 0x10 /* try to alloc harder */
#define ALLOC_HIGH 0x20 /* __GFP_HIGH set */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPUSETS
#define ALLOC_CPUSET 0x40 /* check for correct cpuset */
+#else
+#define ALLOC_CPUSET 0x00
+#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC

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