Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 5 authors, 2011-08-19

Re: [patch 3/3]vmscan: cleanup kswapd_try_to_sleep

From: Minchan Kim <hidden>
Date: 2011-07-29 09:39:38

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 04:13:09PM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
cleanup kswapd_try_to_sleep() a little bit. Sometimes kswapd doesn't
really sleep. In such case, don't call prepare_to_wait/finish_wait.
It just wastes CPU.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <redacted>
And it increases just code size a little bit even without big benefit of CPU.
You said it's cleanup but I doubt how it helps readability.
So code itself dosn't have a problem but I don't like it.

barrios@barrios-desktop:~/linux-mmotm$ size mm/vmscan.o.old
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  10271	     30	      8	  10309	   2845	mm/vmscan.o.old
barrios@barrios-desktop:~/linux-mmotm$ size mm/vmscan.o
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  10287	     30	      8	  10325	   2855	mm/vmscan.o

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim

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