linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/8] mm: make zone_reclaim

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Date:   Wed, 12 Sep 2018 09:30:28 -0400
From:   Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>
To:     Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     aaron.lu@...el.com, ak@...ux.intel.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        dave.dice@...cle.com, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com,
        hannes@...xchg.org, levyossi@...oud.com,
        mgorman@...hsingularity.net, mhocko@...nel.org,
        Pavel.Tatashin@...rosoft.com, steven.sistare@...cle.com,
        tim.c.chen@...el.com, vdavydov.dev@...il.com, ying.huang@...el.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/8] mm: make zone_reclaim_stat updates thread-safe

On 9/11/18 12:40 PM, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> On 11/09/2018 02:42, Daniel Jordan wrote:
>> diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
>> index 32699b2dc52a..6d4c23a3069d 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
>> @@ -229,6 +229,12 @@ struct zone_reclaim_stat {
>>   	 *
>>   	 * The anon LRU stats live in [0], file LRU stats in [1]
>>   	 */
>> +	atomic_long_t		recent_rotated[2];
>> +	atomic_long_t		recent_scanned[2];
> 
> It might be better to use a slightly different name for these fields to
> distinguish them from the ones in the zone_reclaim_stat_cpu structure.

Sure, these are now named recent_rotated_cpu and recent_scanned_cpu, absent better names.

Thanks for your comments.