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Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 13:01:55 +0800
From: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang.kh@...il.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@...sung.com>, riel@...hat.com,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm/vmscan: remove two un-needed mem_cgroup_page_lruvec()
call
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Feb 2014, Weijie Yang wrote:
>
>> In putback_inactive_pages() and move_active_pages_to_lru(),
>> lruvec is already an input parameter and pages are all from this lruvec,
>> therefore there is no need to call mem_cgroup_page_lruvec() in loop.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@...sung.com>
>
> Looks plausible but I believe it's incorrect. The lruvec passed in
> is the one we took the pages from, but there's a small but real chance
> that the page has become uncharged meanwhile, and should now be put back
> on the root_mem_cgroup's lruvec instead of the original memcg's lruvec.
Hi Hugh,
Thanks for your review.
Frankly speaking, I am not very sure about it, that is why I add a RFC tag here.
So, do we need update the reclaim_stat meanwhile as we change the lruvec?
Regards,
> Hugh
>
>> ---
>> mm/vmscan.c | 3 ---
>> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
>> index a9c74b4..4804fdb 100644
>> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
>> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
>> @@ -1393,8 +1393,6 @@ putback_inactive_pages(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct list_head *page_list)
>> continue;
>> }
>>
>> - lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, zone);
>> -
>> SetPageLRU(page);
>> lru = page_lru(page);
>> add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
>> @@ -1602,7 +1600,6 @@ static void move_active_pages_to_lru(struct lruvec *lruvec,
>>
>> while (!list_empty(list)) {
>> page = lru_to_page(list);
>> - lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, zone);
>>
>> VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page), page);
>> SetPageLRU(page);
>> --
>> 1.7.10.4
>>
>>
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