Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: separate memory allocation and actual work in alloc_vmap_area()

[Roman Gushchin]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 03:27:56PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 3/1/19 5:48 PM, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 03:43:19PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> >> On 2/25/19 9:30 PM, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> >>> alloc_vmap_area() is allocating memory for the vmap_area, and
> >>> performing the actual lookup of the vm area and vmap_area
> >>> initialization.
> >>>
> >>> This prevents us from using a pre-allocated memory for the map_area
> >>> structure, which can be used in some cases to minimize the number
> >>> of required memory allocations.
> >>
> >> Hmm, but that doesn't happen here or in the later patch, right? The only
> >> caller of init_vmap_area() is alloc_vmap_area(). What am I missing?
> > 
> > So initially the patch was a part of a bigger patchset, which
> > tried to minimize the number of separate allocations during vmalloc(),
> > e.g. by inlining vm_struct->pages into vm_struct for small areas.
> > 
> > I temporarily dropped the rest of the patchset for some rework,
> > but decided to leave this patch, because it looks like a nice refactoring
> > in any case, and also it has been already reviewed and acked by Matthew
> > and Johannes.
> 
> OK then,
> 
> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

Thank you for looking into this and other patches from the series!

Btw, it looks like that recent changes in vmalloc code are in a conflict
with this patch, so I'll drop it for now, and will resend two other as v4.

Thanks!