Hi Linus and Rik,
The last for(;;) loop in mm/page_allo.c:__alloc_pages() looks strange to
me:
for (;;) {
struct page * page = NULL;
...
if (direct_reclaim)
page = reclaim_page(z);
if (page)
return page;
....
if (!page)
page = rmqueue(z, order);
if (page)
return page;
}
a) if direct_reclaim == 0 then page will remain NULL so the
if(page) should be moved inside if(direct_reclaim) instead of being tested
on each iteration unnecessarily.
b) if (!page) is redundant as page==NULL at that point, if it wasn't then
it would have been returned earlier
Am I missing something obvious? Or perhaps one should remember the fact
that 'int x = 0' inside for(;;) means x is set to 0 on each for()
iteration.... :)
Here is the patch, tested under 2.4.0-test10-pre3 (also removed redundant
page = NULL at the beginning).
Regards,
Tigran
--- linux/mm/page_alloc.c Sun Oct 15 20:40:38 2000
+++ work/mm/page_alloc.c Sun Oct 15 20:53:53 2000
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@
zone_t **zone;
int direct_reclaim = 0;
unsigned int gfp_mask = zonelist->gfp_mask;
- struct page * page = NULL;
+ struct page * page;
/*
* Allocations put pressure on the VM subsystem.
@@ -510,17 +510,17 @@
* happen when the OOM killer selects this task for
* instant execution...
*/
- if (direct_reclaim)
+ if (direct_reclaim) {
page = reclaim_page(z);
- if (page)
- return page;
+ if (page)
+ return page;
+ }
/* XXX: is pages_min/4 a good amount to reserve for this? */
if (z->free_pages < z->pages_min / 4 &&
!(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC))
continue;
- if (!page)
- page = rmqueue(z, order);
+ page = rmqueue(z, order);
if (page)
return page;
}
-
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