[PATCH v6 16/27] mm/filemap: Add unlock_folio

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Tue Apr 6 14:51:21 BST 2021


On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 07:47:17PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> Convert unlock_page() to call unlock_folio().  By using a folio we
> avoid a call to compound_head().  This shortens the function from 39
> bytes to 25 and removes 4 instructions on x86-64.  Because we still
> have unlock_page(), it's a net increase of 24 bytes of text for the
> kernel as a whole, but any path that uses unlock_folio() will execute
> 4 fewer instructions.

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>



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