Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 3 authors, 2011-08-06

Re: [PATCH] THP: mremap support and TLB optimization #2

From: Andrea Arcangeli <hidden>
Date: 2011-08-06 18:18:42

On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 04:25:16PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
The meaning of the return values of -1, 0, 1 with the caller doing

if (err)
...
else if (!err)
	...

is tricky to work out. split_huge_page only needs to be called if
returning 0. Would it be possible to have the split_huge_page called in
this function? The end of the function would then look like
I'm doing the cleanup but problem is to call split_huge_page in
move_huge_pmd I'd need to call move_huge_pmd even when extent <
HPAGE_PMD_SIZE. That's an unnecessary call... That is the reason of
the tristate.

Alternatively I could call split_huge_page even if move_huge_pmd
returns -1 (so making it return 0) but then it'd be another
unnecessary call.

Not sure anymore if it's worth removing the -1.

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