From ca641514f4056deee1fb2eb356e2c99b98718ade Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrea Arcangeli Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:48:52 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] mm: thp: optimize compound_trans_huge Currently we don't clobber page_tail->first_page during split_huge_page, so compound_trans_head can be set to compound_head without adverse effects, and this mostly optimizes away a smp_rmb. It looks worthwhile to keep around the implementation that doesn't relay on page_tail->first_page not to be clobbered, because it would be necessary if we'll decide to enforce page->private to zero at all times whenever PG_private is not set, also for anonymous pages. For anonymous pages enforcing such an invariant doesn't matter as anonymous pages don't use page->private so we can get away with this microoptimization. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Khalid Aziz Cc: Pravin Shelar Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Ben Hutchings Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Minchan Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed