Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm, page_alloc: Split buffered_rmqueue

[Jesper Dangaard Brouer]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 09:29:51 +0000 Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> +/* Lock and remove page from the per-cpu list */
> +static struct page *rmqueue_pcplist(struct zone *preferred_zone,
> +			struct zone *zone, unsigned int order,
> +			gfp_t gfp_flags, int migratetype)
> +{
> +	struct per_cpu_pages *pcp;
> +	struct list_head *list;
> +	bool cold = ((gfp_flags & __GFP_COLD) != 0);
> +	struct page *page;
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +
> +	local_irq_save(flags);
> +	pcp = &this_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset)->pcp;
> +	list = &pcp->lists[migratetype];
> +	page = __rmqueue_pcplist(zone,  migratetype, cold, pcp, list);
> +	if (page) {
> +		__count_zid_vm_events(PGALLOC, page_zonenum(page), 1 << order);
> +		zone_statistics(preferred_zone, zone, gfp_flags);

Word-of-warning: The zone_statistics() call changed number of
parameters in commit 41b6167e8f74 ("mm: get rid of __GFP_OTHER_NODE").
(Not sure what tree you are based on)

> +	}
> +	local_irq_restore(flags);
> +	return page;
> +}


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  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
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