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author | Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com> | 2014-06-04 16:08:02 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-06-04 16:54:03 -0700 |
commit | d2ee40eae98d8a41ff27dcdd13b1b656c4c1ad00 (patch) | |
tree | d26650dbfccd69d68781f7647a916ef262148812 /mm | |
parent | 4bd3e8f7b94785a6f65665fee21ff3dbc2bf4ef8 (diff) | |
download | linux-d2ee40eae98d8a41ff27dcdd13b1b656c4c1ad00.tar.bz2 |
mm: introdule compound_head_by_tail()
Currently, in put_compound_page(), we have
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if (likely(!PageTail(page))) { <------ (1)
if (put_page_testzero(page)) {
/*
¦* By the time all refcounts have been released
¦* split_huge_page cannot run anymore from under us.
¦*/
if (PageHead(page))
__put_compound_page(page);
else
__put_single_page(page);
}
return;
}
/* __split_huge_page_refcount can run under us */
page_head = compound_head(page); <------------ (2)
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if at (1) , we fail the check, this means page is *likely* a tail page.
Then at (2), as compoud_head(page) is inlined, it is :
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static inline struct page *compound_head(struct page *page)
{
if (unlikely(PageTail(page))) { <----------- (3)
struct page *head = page->first_page;
smp_rmb();
if (likely(PageTail(page)))
return head;
}
return page;
}
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here, the (3) unlikely in the case is a negative hint, because it is
*likely* a tail page. So the check (3) in this case is not good, so I
introduce a helper for this case.
So this patch introduces compound_head_by_tail() which deals with a
possible tail page(though it could be spilt by a racy thread), and make
compound_head() a wrapper on it.
This patch has no functional change, and it reduces the object
size slightly:
text data bss dec hex filename
11003 1328 16 12347 303b mm/swap.o.orig
10971 1328 16 12315 301b mm/swap.o.patched
I've ran "perf top -e branch-miss" to observe branch-miss in this case.
As Michael points out, it's a slow path, so only very few times this case
happens. But I grep'ed the code base, and found there still are some
other call sites could be benifited from this helper. And given that it
only bloating up the source by only 5 lines, but with a reduced object
size. I still believe this helper deserves to exsit.
Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/swap.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c index d089c5a0cf98..c8d6df556ce6 100644 --- a/mm/swap.c +++ b/mm/swap.c @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ static void put_compound_page(struct page *page) * Case 3 is possible, as we may race with * __split_huge_page_refcount tearing down a THP page. */ - page_head = compound_head(page); + page_head = compound_head_by_tail(page); if (!__compound_tail_refcounted(page_head)) put_unrefcounted_compound_page(page_head, page); else |