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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Arun KS <arunks@codeaurora.org>
Cc: kys@microsoft.com, haiyangz@microsoft.com,
	sthemmin@microsoft.com, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com,
	jgross@suse.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	dan.j.williams@intel.com, vbabka@suse.cz, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, osalvador@suse.de, malat@debian.org,
	kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, jrdr.linux@gmail.com,
	yasu.isimatu@gmail.com, mgorman@techsingularity.net,
	aaron.lu@intel.com, devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, vatsa@codeaurora.org,
	vinmenon@codeaurora.org, getarunks@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] mm/page_alloc: remove software prefetching in __free_pages_core
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 11:30:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181009093037.GI8528@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1538727006-5727-2-git-send-email-arunks@codeaurora.org>

On Fri 05-10-18 13:40:06, Arun KS wrote:
> They not only increase the code footprint, they actually make things
> slower rather than faster. Remove them as contemporary hardware doesn't
> need any hint.

I agree with the change but it is much better to add some numbers
whenever arguing about performance impact.

> 
> Suggested-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Arun KS <arunks@codeaurora.org>
> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c | 6 +-----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 7ab5274..90db431 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -1258,14 +1258,10 @@ void __free_pages_core(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
>  	struct page *p = page;
>  	unsigned int loop;
>  
> -	prefetchw(p);
> -	for (loop = 0; loop < (nr_pages - 1); loop++, p++) {
> -		prefetchw(p + 1);
> +	for (loop = 0; loop < nr_pages ; loop++, p++) {
>  		__ClearPageReserved(p);
>  		set_page_count(p, 0);
>  	}
> -	__ClearPageReserved(p);
> -	set_page_count(p, 0);
>  
>  	page_zone(page)->managed_pages += nr_pages;
>  	set_page_refcounted(page);
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-09  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-05  8:10 [PATCH v5 1/2] memory_hotplug: Free pages as higher order Arun KS
2018-10-05  8:10 ` [PATCH v5 2/2] mm/page_alloc: remove software prefetching in __free_pages_core Arun KS
2018-10-09  9:30   ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2018-10-10 16:36   ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-10-08  7:34 ` [PATCH v5 1/2] memory_hotplug: Free pages as higher order Oscar Salvador
2018-10-09  9:29 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-09  9:54   ` Arun KS
2018-10-09 11:06     ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-10  8:07 ` Oscar Salvador
2018-10-10 10:51   ` Arun KS
2018-10-10 11:01     ` Oscar Salvador
2018-10-10 15:30 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-10-10 16:56   ` Arun KS
2018-10-10 17:33     ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-11  2:29       ` Arun KS
2018-10-11  7:55         ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-19  2:18           ` Andrew Morton
2018-10-19  8:07             ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-22 10:33               ` Arun KS
2018-11-05  9:42                 ` Arun KS
2018-11-05 21:44                   ` Andrew Morton
2018-11-06  5:31                     ` Arun KS
2018-10-11  8:07     ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-10-11  8:15       ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-19 22:15       ` Wei Yang

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