Re: [PATCH 4/6] Have zonelist contains structs with both a zone pointer and zone_idx

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On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Mel Gorman wrote:

> 
> Filtering zonelists requires very frequent use of zone_idx(). This is costly
> as it involves a lookup of another structure and a substraction operation. As
> the zone_idx is often required, it should be quickly accessible.  The node
> idx could also be stored here if it was found that accessing zone->node is
> significant which may be the case on workloads where nodemasks are heavily
> used.
> 
> This patch introduces a struct zoneref to store a zone pointer and a zone
> index.  The zonelist then consists of an array of this struct zonerefs which
> are looked up as necessary. Helpers are given for accessing the zone index
> as well as the node index.
> 
> [[email protected]: Suggested struct zoneref instead of embedding information in pointers]
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>

OOM locking looks good, thanks.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
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