From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: minchan kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove duplicating priority setting in try_to_free_p
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:01:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080128010102.8cbcbdda.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28c262360801272243h71bf4464s431d1377051c756b@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:43:56 +0900 "minchan kim" <minchan.kim@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think this is actually a bugfix. The code you're removing doesn't do the
> >
> > if (priority < zone->prev_priority)
> >
> > thing.
> >
>
> shrink_zones() in try_to_free_pages() already called
> note_zone_scanning_priority().
> So, it have done it.
note_zone_scanning_priority() will only permit ->prev_priority to logically
increase, whereas the code which you've removed will also permit
->prev_priority to logically decrease. So I don't see that they are
equivalent?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-28 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-26 7:29 minchan kim
2008-01-28 5:33 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-28 6:43 ` minchan kim
2008-01-28 9:01 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-01-28 12:38 ` minchan kim
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