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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: "zhaoyang.huang" <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Zhaoyang Huang <huangzhaoyang@gmail.com>,
	steve.kang@unisoc.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] mm: only use old generation and stable tier for madv_pageout
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 16:38:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZSlkdGk2KG+zHAkg@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231013113028.2720996-1-zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>

On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 07:30:28PM +0800, zhaoyang.huang wrote:
> From: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>
> 
> Dropping pages of young generation or unstable tier via madvise could
> make the system experience heavy page thrashing and IO pressure.

... then userspace should not do that?

> @@ -5091,6 +5091,7 @@ static int get_tier_idx(struct lruvec *lruvec, int type)
>  
>  	return tier - 1;
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_tier_idx);

Why would this need to be exported to modules in order to be used by
madvise?  Is this patch just a trojan horse so you can use get_tier_idx
in your own module?  NAK.


      reply	other threads:[~2023-10-13 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-13 11:30 zhaoyang.huang
2023-10-13 15:38 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]

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