linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>,
	Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] resource: re-factor page_is_ram()
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 12:23:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <05623846-03c7-89f1-e1dd-0ee23723c7e9@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220601163243.3806231-1-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>

On 01.06.22 18:32, Vaibhav Jain wrote:
> Presently page_is_ram() relies on walk_system_ram_range() that performs a walk
> on kernel iomem resources hierarchy with a dummy callback __is_ram(). Before
> calling find_next_iomem_res(), walk_system_ram_range() does some book-keeping
> which can be avoided for page_is_ram() use-case.
> 
> Hence this patch proposes to update page_is_ram() to directly call
> find_next_iomem_res() with minimal book-keeping needed.

I consider the code harder to get compared to just reusing the
more-generic and expressive walk_system_ram_range().

It somehow feels like we're duplicating the code here just to optimize
out a handful of instructions.

If it doesn't make the code easier to read (at least for me), why do we
care?

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb


  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-10 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-01 16:32 [PATCH] resource: re-factor page_is_ram() Vaibhav Jain
2022-06-10 10:23 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2022-06-16  6:45   ` Vaibhav Jain
2022-07-18 10:42     ` David Hildenbrand
2022-07-18 10:48 ` David Hildenbrand
2022-07-18 18:00   ` Dan Williams

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=05623846-03c7-89f1-e1dd-0ee23723c7e9@redhat.com \
    --to=david@redhat.com \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com \
    --cc=dan.j.williams@intel.com \
    --cc=linmiaohe@huawei.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=songmuchun@bytedance.com \
    --cc=vaibhav@linux.ibm.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).