linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] add inactive ratio calculation function of each zone V2

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Message-Id: <20090527150508.2ce7e57b.minchan.kim@barrios-desktop>
Date:	Wed, 27 May 2009 15:05:08 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] add inactive ratio calculation function of each
 zone V2

On Tue, 26 May 2009 22:30:02 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 21 May 2009 09:23:21 +0900 Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > Changelog since V1 
> >  o Change function name from calculate_zone_inactive_ratio to calculate_inactive_ratio
> >    - by Mel Gorman advise
> >  o Modify tab indent - by Mel Gorman advise
> 
> The first two patches still had various trivial whitespace bustages. 
> You don't need Mel to find these things when we have the very nice
> scripts/checkpatch.pl.  Please incorporate that script into your patch
> preparation tools

Oops. I thought I tried to do checkpatch.pl with my patches. 

> > This patch devide setup_per_zone_inactive_ratio with
> > per-zone inactive ratio calculaton.
> 
> The above sentence appears to be the changelog for this patch but it
> doesn't make a lot of sense.
> 
> afaict the changelog should be:
> 
> "factor the per-zone arithemetic inside
> setup_per_zone_inactive_ratio()'s loop into a a separate function,
> calculate_zone_inactive_ratio().  This function will be used in a later
> patch".
> 
> yes?

Exactly. 

I will repost this with your improved changelog.
Thanks. Andrew.



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Kinds Regards
Minchan Kim
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