linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: shrink_inactive_lis() nr

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Message-ID: <4A5E8C09.1030406@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:10:17 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: shrink_inactive_lis() nr_scan accounting fix
 fix

KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH] mm: shrink_inactive_lis() nr_scan accounting fix fix
> 
> If sc->isolate_pages() return 0, we don't need to call shrink_page_list().
> In past days, shrink_inactive_list() handled it properly.
> 
> But commit fb8d14e1 (three years ago commit!) breaked it. current shrink_inactive_list()
> always call shrink_page_list() although isolate_pages() return 0.
> 
> This patch restore proper return value check.
> 
> 
> Requirements:
>   o "nr_taken == 0" condition should stay before calling shrink_page_list().
>   o "nr_taken == 0" condition should stay after nr_scan related statistics
>      modification.
> 
> 
> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>

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