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Message-ID: <bf8be185-e757-cf05-999d-56bfb83f1bc9@linux.alibaba.com>
Date:   Tue, 20 Aug 2019 22:21:39 +0800
From:   Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/14] mm/lru: fix the comments of lru_lock



在 2019/8/20 下午10:00, Matthew Wilcox 写道:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 05:48:37PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
>> @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ static inline bool free_area_empty(struct free_area *area, int migratetype)
>>  struct pglist_data;
>>  
>>  /*
>> - * zone->lock and the zone lru_lock are two of the hottest locks in the kernel.
>> + * zone->lock and the lru_lock are two of the hottest locks in the kernel.
>>   * So add a wild amount of padding here to ensure that they fall into separate
>>   * cachelines.  There are very few zone structures in the machine, so space
>>   * consumption is not a concern here.
> 
> But after this patch series, the lru lock is no longer stored in the zone.
> So this comment makes no sense.

Yes, It's need reconsider here. thanks for opoint out.

> 
>> @@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ struct zone_reclaim_stat {
>>  
>>  struct lruvec {
>>  	struct list_head		lists[NR_LRU_LISTS];
>> -	/* move lru_lock to per lruvec for memcg */
>> +	/* perf lruvec lru_lock for memcg */
> 
> What does the word 'perf' mean here?

sorry for typo, could be s/perf/per/ here.

Thanks
Alex