From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Linux-FSDevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] mm: Remove cold parameter for release_pages
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 11:26:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <72f644cf-f891-e3a6-98ed-ed3a25c44ce2@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171018075952.10627-7-mgorman@techsingularity.net>
On 10/18/2017 09:59 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> All callers of release_pages claim the pages being released are cache hot.
> As no one cares about the hotness of pages being released to the allocator,
> just ditch the parameter.
>
> No performance impact is expected as the overhead is marginal. The parameter
> is removed simply because it is a bit stupid to have a useless parameter
> copied everywhere.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-19 9:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-18 7:59 [PATCH 0/8] Follow-up for speed up page cache truncation v2 Mel Gorman
2017-10-18 7:59 ` [PATCH 1/8] mm, page_alloc: Enable/disable IRQs once when freeing a list of pages Mel Gorman
2017-10-18 9:02 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-10-18 10:15 ` Mel Gorman
2017-10-18 7:59 ` [PATCH 2/8] mm, truncate: Do not check mapping for every page being truncated Mel Gorman
2017-10-19 8:11 ` Jan Kara
2017-10-18 7:59 ` [PATCH 3/8] mm, truncate: Remove all exceptional entries from pagevec under one lock Mel Gorman
2017-10-18 7:59 ` [PATCH 4/8] mm: Only drain per-cpu pagevecs once per pagevec usage Mel Gorman
2017-10-19 9:12 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-10-19 9:33 ` Mel Gorman
2017-10-19 13:21 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-10-18 7:59 ` [PATCH 5/8] mm, pagevec: Remove cold parameter for pagevecs Mel Gorman
2017-10-19 9:24 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-10-18 7:59 ` [PATCH 6/8] mm: Remove cold parameter for release_pages Mel Gorman
2017-10-19 9:26 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2017-10-18 7:59 ` [PATCH 7/8] mm, Remove cold parameter from free_hot_cold_page* Mel Gorman
2017-10-19 13:12 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-10-19 15:43 ` Mel Gorman
2017-10-18 7:59 ` [PATCH 8/8] mm: Remove __GFP_COLD Mel Gorman
2017-10-19 13:18 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-10-19 13:42 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-10-19 14:32 ` Mel Gorman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-10-12 9:30 [PATCH 0/8] Follow-up for speed up page cache truncation Mel Gorman
2017-10-12 9:31 ` [PATCH 6/8] mm: Remove cold parameter for release_pages Mel Gorman
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