Hello Namhyung,
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Namhyung Kim [off-list ref] wrote:
Now I'm seeing that there are some cases to free all pages in a
pcp lists. In that case, just frees all pages in the lists instead
of being bothered with round-robin lists traversal.
I though about that but I didn't send the patch.
That's because many cases which calls free_pcppages_bulk(,
pcp->count,..) are slow path so it adds comparison overhead on fast
path while it loses the effectiveness in slow path.
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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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