From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Meta kernel team <kernel-team@meta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/truncate: reset xa_has_values flag on each iteration
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 16:09:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <zdrmuzjcgxps3ivdvnmouygdct2lr6qj2avypuj3hatv746rye@7wu3txx5hyou> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241002155555.7fc4c6e294c75e2510426598@linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, Oct 02, 2024 at 03:55:55PM GMT, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 15:51:50 -0700 Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> wrote:
>
> > Currently mapping_try_invalidate() and invalidate_inode_pages2_range()
> > traverses the xarray in batches and then for each batch, maintains and
> > set the flag named xa_has_values if the batch has a shadow entry to
> > clear the entries at the end of the iteration. However they forgot to
> > reset the flag at the end of the iteration which cause them to always
> > try to clear the shadow entries in the subsequent iterations where
> > there might not be any shadow entries. Fixing it.
> >
>
> So this is an efficiency thing, no other effects expected?
>
Correct, just an efficiency thing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-02 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-02 22:51 Shakeel Butt
2024-10-02 22:55 ` Andrew Morton
2024-10-02 23:09 ` Shakeel Butt [this message]
2024-10-03 20:01 ` Andrew Morton
2024-10-03 20:11 ` Shakeel Butt
2024-10-06 22:03 ` Yu Zhao
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