linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm: move most file-based accounting to the node -fix

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Message-ID: <20160713131633.GF9905@cmpxchg.org>
Date:	Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:16:33 -0400
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm: move most file-based accounting to the node -fix

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:00:04AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> As noted by Johannes Weiner, NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING gets decremented twice
> during migration instead of a dec(old) -> inc(new) cycle as intended.
> 
> This is a fix to mmotm patch
> mm-move-most-file-based-accounting-to-the-node.patch
> 
> Note that it'll cause a conflict with
> mm-vmstat-remove-zone-and-node-double-accounting-by-approximating-retries.patch
> but that the resolution is trivial.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>