linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/9] mm: slab/slub: use page->list consistently instead of page->lru

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Date:	Thu, 16 Jan 2014 02:11:41 +0200
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:	Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, penberg@...nel.org,
	cl@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/9] mm: slab/slub: use page->list consistently
 instead of page->lru

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:00:44AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 
> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> 'struct page' has two list_head fields: 'lru' and 'list'.
> Conveniently, they are unioned together.  This means that code
> can use them interchangably, which gets horribly confusing like
> with this nugget from slab.c:
> 
> >	list_del(&page->lru);
> >	if (page->active == cachep->num)
> >		list_add(&page->list, &n->slabs_full);
> 
> This patch makes the slab and slub code use page->lru
> universally instead of mixing ->list and ->lru.
> 
> So, the new rule is: page->lru is what the you use if you want to
> keep your page on a list.  Don't like the fact that it's not
> called ->list?  Too bad.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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