Re: [PATCH] mm: pass the pfn to set_pageblock_migratetype

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Mon Jun 03 2024 - 09:52:43 EST


On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 01:48:50PM +0000, Yajun Deng wrote:
> June 3, 2024 at 9:03 PM, "Matthew Wilcox" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 08:41:00PM +0800, Yajun Deng wrote:
> > > It is necessary to calculate the pfn in the set_pageblock_migratetype(),
> > > but most of the callers already have the pfn.
> >
> > It's not exactly a hard computation though. Have you done any
> >
> > measurements that show this patch is an improvement?
>
> No, just view the code. But some callers are in a for loop.

All the more reason to MEASURE. There is a cost to marshalling
function arguments which must be weighed against the cost of
recalculating the PFN. Since you haven't done that, NAK.