Re: [PATCH 08/22] mm/vmstat: Avoid on each online CPU loops

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Nov 29 2016 - 09:11:02 EST


On Mon, 28 Nov 2016, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Sun 27-11-16 00:13:36, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> [...]
> > static void __init init_cpu_node_state(void)
> > {
> > - int cpu;
> > + int node;
> >
> > - for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
> > - node_set_state(cpu_to_node(cpu), N_CPU);
> > + for_each_online_node(node)
> > + node_set_state(node, N_CPU);
>
> Is this really correct? The point of the original code was to mark only
> those nodes which have at least one CPU. Or am I missing something?

You're right. An online node does not necessarily have an online CPU.

for_each_online_node(node) {
if (cpumask_weight(cpumask_of_node(node)) > 0)
node_set_state(node, N_CPU);
}

is probably more correct.

Thanks,

tglx