Re: [PATCH 11/13] mm: meminit: Free pages in large chunks where possible

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Apr 27 2015 - 18:44:04 EST


On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:33:14 +0100 Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Parallel struct page frees pages one at a time. Try free pages as single
> large pages where possible.
>
> ...
>
> void __defermem_init deferred_init_memmap(int nid)

This function is gruesome in an 80-col display. Even the code comments
wrap, which is nuts. Maybe hoist the contents of the outermost loop
into a separate function, called for each zone?
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