linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm: Move recent_rotated pages calculation to shrink_inactive

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Date:   Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:19:30 +0300
From:   Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
To:     Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mhocko@...e.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm: Move recent_rotated pages calculation to
 shrink_inactive_list()

On 13.02.2019 20:33, Daniel Jordan wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 06:14:00PM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
>> Currently, struct reclaim_stat::nr_activate is a local variable,
>> used only in shrink_page_list(). This patch introduces another
>> local variable pgactivate to use instead of it, and reuses
>> nr_activate to account number of active pages.
>>
>> Note, that we need nr_activate to be an array, since type of page
>> may change during shrink_page_list() (see ClearPageSwapBacked()).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
>> ---
>>  include/linux/vmstat.h |    2 +-
>>  mm/vmscan.c            |   15 +++++++--------
> 
> include/trace/events/vmscan.h needs to account for the array-ification of
> nr_activate too.

Yeah, thanks.