Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] mm, page_alloc: remove setup_pageset()

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Oct 08 2020 - 09:03:23 EST


On Thu 08-10-20 14:56:13, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 10/8/20 2:23 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Thu 08-10-20 13:41:57, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > > We initialize boot-time pagesets with setup_pageset(), which sets high and
> > > batch values that effectively disable pcplists.
> > >
> > > We can remove this wrapper if we just set these values for all pagesets in
> > > pageset_init(). Non-boot pagesets then subsequently update them to the proper
> > > values.
> > >
> > > No functional change.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
> > > Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks!
>
> > Btw. where do we initialize pcp->count? I thought that pcp allocator
> > zeroes out the allocated memory but alloc_percpu is GFP_KERNEL like.
>
> pageset_init() does:
> memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p))

Ohh, I have missed pcp is embeded into per_cpu_pageset. Using it as s
pointer here confused me. Sorry about the noise.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs