On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Namhyung Kim [off-list ref] wrote:

2011-02-10 (목), 22:10 +0900, Minchan Kim:

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Hello Namhyung,

Hi Minchan,

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On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Namhyung Kim [off-list ref] wrote:

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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.

Hmm.. How about adding unlikely() then? Doesn't it help much here?

Yes. It would help but I am not sure how much it is.
AFAIR, when Mel submit the patch, he tried to prove the effectiveness
with some experiment and profiler.
I think if you want it really, we might need some number.
I am not sure it's worth.




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Minchan Kim

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