Re: [PATCH v9]: Hibernation: fix the number of pages used for hibernate/thawbuffering

From: Per Olofsson
Date: Tue Apr 10 2012 - 05:22:31 EST


On 2012-04-10 11:19, Bojan Smojver wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 10:40 +0200, Per Olofsson wrote:
>> Nitpick: it should be faster to calculate "nr_free_pages() -
>> nr_free_highpages()", at least on systems without high pages. But
>> perhaps it does not matter.
>
> Actually, nr_free_highpages() does a loop very similar to the one in the
> patch. So, you would then have that and nr_free_pages() invocation.
> That's why I went with just the loop.
>
> Make sense?
>

If you don't have any high pages (e.g. x86_64), then nr_free_highpages()
is defined to be 0 and is optimized away completely.

Still, it seems you are not calculating free pages that often anymore so
it should not matter much.

--
Pelle
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