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From: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: "dennis@kernel.org" <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>, "tj@kernel.org" <tj@kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"van.freenix@gmail.com" <van.freenix@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] percpu: km: no need to consider pcpu_group_offsets[0]
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 15:15:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <010001692a605709-407cf476-e7b6-43be-8551-66c54059e92f-000000@email.amazonses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190225151616.GB49611@dennisz-mbp.dhcp.thefacebook.com>

On Mon, 25 Feb 2019, dennis@kernel.org wrote:

> > @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ static struct pcpu_chunk *pcpu_create_chunk(gfp_t gfp)
> >  		pcpu_set_page_chunk(nth_page(pages, i), chunk);
> >
> >  	chunk->data = pages;
> > -	chunk->base_addr = page_address(pages) - pcpu_group_offsets[0];
> > +	chunk->base_addr = page_address(pages);
> >
> >  	spin_lock_irqsave(&pcpu_lock, flags);
> >  	pcpu_chunk_populated(chunk, 0, nr_pages, false);
> > --
> > 2.16.4
> >
>
> While I do think you're right, creating a chunk is not a part of the
> critical path and subtracting 0 is incredibly minor overhead. So I'd
> rather keep the code as is to maintain consistency between percpu-vm.c
> and percpu-km.c.

Well it is confusing if there the expression is there but never used. It
is clearer with the patch.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-26 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-24 13:13 [PATCH 1/2] percpu: km: remove SMP check Peng Fan
2019-02-24 13:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] percpu: km: no need to consider pcpu_group_offsets[0] Peng Fan
2019-02-25 15:16   ` dennis
2019-02-26  0:03     ` Peng Fan
2019-02-26 15:15     ` Christopher Lameter [this message]
2019-02-26 15:15       ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-26 16:31       ` Dennis Zhou
2019-02-25 15:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] percpu: km: remove SMP check Dennis Zhou
2019-02-25 23:58   ` Peng Fan
2019-02-26 15:16   ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-26 15:16     ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-26 17:03     ` Dennis Zhou
2019-02-27 13:02       ` Peng Fan
2019-02-27 16:41         ` Dennis Zhou
2019-03-03  8:49           ` Peng Fan

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