linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/13] list: add a new LRU list type

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Message-ID: <4E5379DA.8060109@openvz.org>
Date:	Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:58:50 +0400
From:	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
CC:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/13] list: add a new LRU list type

Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 05:20:56AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 06:56:21PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
>>> From: Dave Chinner<dchinner@...hat.com>
>>>
>>> Several subsystems use the same construct for LRU lists - a list
>>> head, a spin lock and and item count. They also use exactly the same
>>> code for adding and removing items from the LRU. Create a generic
>>> type for these LRU lists.
>>>
>>> This is the beginning of generic, node aware LRUs for shrinkers to
>>> work with.
>>
>> Why list_lru vs the more natural sounding lru_list?
>
> because the mmzone.h claimed that namespace:
>
> enum lru_list {
>          LRU_INACTIVE_ANON = LRU_BASE,
>          LRU_ACTIVE_ANON = LRU_BASE + LRU_ACTIVE,
>          LRU_INACTIVE_FILE = LRU_BASE + LRU_FILE,
>          LRU_ACTIVE_FILE = LRU_BASE + LRU_FILE + LRU_ACTIVE,
>          LRU_UNEVICTABLE,
>          NR_LRU_LISTS
> };
>
> and it is widely spewed through the mm code. I didn't really feel
> like having to clean that mess up first....

not so widely:

$ git grep -wc 'enum lru_list'
include/linux/memcontrol.h:5
include/linux/mm_inline.h:7
include/linux/mmzone.h:4
include/linux/pagevec.h:1
include/linux/swap.h:2
mm/memcontrol.c:10
mm/page_alloc.c:1
mm/swap.c:6
mm/vmscan.c:6

maybe is better to rename it to enum page_lru_list
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