Re: [RFC] mm/zsmalloc: remove redundant SetPagePrivate2 in create_page_chain

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Wed Feb 15 2017 - 02:14:05 EST


On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 08:48:29PM +0800, Yisheng Xie wrote:
> We had used page->lru to link the component pages (except the first
> page) of a zspage, and used INIT_LIST_HEAD(&page->lru) to init it.
> Therefore, to get the last page's next page, which is NULL, we had to
> use page flag PG_Private_2 to identify it.
>
> But now, we use page->freelist to link all of the pages in zspage and
> init the page->freelist as NULL for last page, so no need to use
> PG_Private_2 anymore.
>
> This patch is to remove redundant SetPagePrivate2 in create_page_chain
> and ClearPagePrivate2 in reset_page(). Maybe can save few cycles for
> migration of zsmalloc page :)
>
> Signed-off-by: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, Yisheng!