Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] mm/sparse: Optimize memmap allocation during sparse_init()

[Pavel Tatashin]

On 06/29/2018 01:52 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 06/29/2018 10:48 AM, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
>> Here is example:
>> Node1:
>> map_map[0] -> Struct pages ...
>> map_map[1] -> NULL
>> Node2:
>> map_map[2] -> Struct pages ...
>>
>> We always want to configure section from Node2 with struct pages from
>> Node2. Even, if there are holes in-between. The same with usemap.
> 
> Right...  But your example consumes two mem_map[]s.
> 
> But, from scanning the code, we increment nr_consumed_maps three times.
> Correct?

Correct: it should be incremented on every iteration of the loop. No matter if the entries contained valid data or NULLs. So we increment in three places:

if map_map[] has invalid entry, increment, continue
if usemap_map[] has invalid entry, increment, continue
at the end of the loop, everything was valid we increment it

This is done so nr_consumed_maps does not get out of sync with the current pnum. pnum does not equal to nr_consumed_maps, as there are may be holes in pnums, but there is one-to-one correlation.

Pavel