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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com, mhocko@suse.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm: Move recent_rotated pages calculation to shrink_inactive_list()
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 12:57:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190214125759.97558dd947057db0397eb95e@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <155014052145.28944.16497030123804725057.stgit@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:35:21 +0300 Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> wrote:

> Currently, struct reclaim_stat::nr_activate is a local variable,
> used only in shrink_page_list(). This patch introduces another
> local variable pgactivate to use instead of it, and reuses
> nr_activate to account number of active pages.
> 
> Note, that we need nr_activate to be an array, since type of page
> may change during shrink_page_list() (see ClearPageSwapBacked()).

The patch has nothing to do with the Subject:

reclaim_stat::nr_activate is not a local variable - it is a struct member.

I can kinda see what the patch is doing but the changelog needs more
care, please.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-14 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-14 10:35 [PATCH v2 0/4] mm: Generalize putback functions Kirill Tkhai
2019-02-14 10:35 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] mm: Move recent_rotated pages calculation to shrink_inactive_list() Kirill Tkhai
2019-02-14 20:57   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2019-02-15  7:38     ` [PATCH v2.5 " Kirill Tkhai
2019-02-14 10:35 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] mm: Move nr_deactivate accounting to shrink_active_list() Kirill Tkhai
2019-02-14 10:35 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] mm: Remove pages_to_free argument of move_active_pages_to_lru() Kirill Tkhai
2019-02-14 10:35 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] mm: Generalize putback scan functions Kirill Tkhai
2019-02-15 20:39   ` Daniel Jordan
2019-02-15 22:01     ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-02-15 22:13       ` Daniel Jordan
2019-02-18  8:20         ` Kirill Tkhai

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