Re: [PATCH next] mm/vmscan: __isolate_lru_page_prepare clean up

From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH next] mm/vmscan: __isolate_lru_page_prepare clean up
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 16:23:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2ba66325-e3c8-d809-a8dd-85af77c3904b@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ebbad64b-069a-26e0-ac0a-854649e20a97@linux.alibaba.com>

On 11/26/20 3:25 AM, Alex Shi wrote:
> 
> 
> 在 2020/11/26 上午7:43, Andrew Morton 写道:
>> On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 12:21:28 +0100 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 11/22/20 3:00 PM, Alex Shi wrote:
>>>> Thanks a lot for all comments, I picked all up and here is the v3:
>>>>
>>>>  From 167131dd106a96fd08af725df850e0da6ec899af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>>> From: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
>>>> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 14:49:16 +0800
>>>> Subject: [PATCH v3 next] mm/vmscan: __isolate_lru_page_prepare clean up
>>>>
>>>> The function just return 2 results, so use a 'switch' to deal with its
>>>> result is unnecessary, and simplify it to a bool func as Vlastimil
>>>> suggested.
>>>>
>>>> Also remove 'goto' by reusing list_move(), and take Matthew Wilcox's
>>>> suggestion to update comments in function.
>>>
>>> I wouldn't mind if the goto stayed, but it's not repeating that much 
>>> without it (list_move() + continue, 3 times) so...
>> 
>> I tried that, and .text became significantly larger, for reasons which
>> I didn't investigate ;)

I found out that comparing whole .text doesn't often work as changes might be lost in alignment, or
once in a while cross the alignment boundary and become exagerated. bloat-o-meter works nice though.

> Uh, BTW, with the gcc 8.3.1 and centos 7, goto or continue version has same size
> on my side with or w/o DEBUG_LIST. But actually, this clean up patch could
> add 10 bytes also with or w/o DEDBUG_LIST.
> 
> Maybe related with different compiler?

gcc (SUSE Linux) 10.2.1 20201117 [revision 98ba03ffe0b9f37b4916ce6238fad754e00d720b]

./scripts/bloat-o-meter vmscan.o.before mm/vmscan.o
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-1 (-1)
Function                                     old     new   delta
isolate_lru_pages                           1125    1124      -1
Total: Before=57283, After=57282, chg -0.00%

Not surprising, as I'd expect the compiler to figure out by itself that list_move + continue
repeats and can be unified.  The reason for goto to stay would be rather readability (subjective).

> Thanks
> Alex
> 