Hello,

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 01:44:30PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > +static bool need_activate_page_drain(int cpu)
> > +{
> > +   return pagevec_count(&per_cpu(activate_page_pvecs, cpu)) != 0;
> > +}
> 
> static int need_activate_page_drain(int cpu)
> {
>       return pagevec_count(&per_cpu(activate_page_pvecs, cpu));
> }
> 
> would be shorter and faster.  bool rather sucks that way.  It's a
> performance-vs-niceness thing.  I guess one has to look at the call
> frequency when deciding.

"!= 0" can be dropped but I'm fairly sure the compiler would be able
to figure out that the type conversion can be skipped.  It's a trivial
optimization.

> > +                   schedule_work_on(cpu, work);
> > +                   cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, &has_work);
> > +           }
> > +   }
> > +
> > +   for_each_cpu(cpu, &has_work)
> 
> for_each_online_cpu()?

That would lead to flushing work items which aren't used and may not
have been initialized yet, no?

> > +           flush_work(&per_cpu(lru_add_drain_work, cpu));
> > +
> > +   put_online_cpus();
> > +   mutex_unlock(&lock);
> >  }
> 

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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