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From: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Subject: Re: mm: Do not drain pagevecs for mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 21:28:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANN689FHhkkWu+1b+rHqSDLiV9Pp=LX8-Xsab2o=uocwEOOOMA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1110071943060.13992@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 7:45 PM, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>> -     lru_add_drain_all();    /* flush pagevec */
>> +     if (flags & MCL_CURRENT)
>> +             lru_add_drain_all();    /* flush pagevec */
>
> I understand the intention of lru_add_drain_all() to try to avoid a
> later failure when moving to the unevictable list and why flushing it's
> necessary for MCL_FUTURE, but I think this should be written
>
>        if (!(flags & MCL_FUTURE))
>                ...
>
> since flags may be extended sometime in the future.

When flags == (MCL_CURRENT | MCL_FUTURE), we do want to flush the
pagevecs as in the straight MCL_CURRENT case, so I think Christoph's
version is the correct one.

-- 
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-08  4:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-07 20:32 Christoph Lameter
2011-10-08  2:45 ` David Rientjes
2011-10-08  4:28   ` Michel Lespinasse [this message]
2011-10-08  9:43 ` Minchan Kim
2011-10-10 16:15 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-10-12 14:57 ` Johannes Weiner

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