Re: [PATCH 6/8] mm: Remove cold parameter for release_pages

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Thu Oct 19 2017 - 05:27:02 EST


On 10/18/2017 09:59 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> All callers of release_pages claim the pages being released are cache hot.
> As no one cares about the hotness of pages being released to the allocator,
> just ditch the parameter.
>
> No performance impact is expected as the overhead is marginal. The parameter
> is removed simply because it is a bit stupid to have a useless parameter
> copied everywhere.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>