linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 3/6] mm/workingset: extend the workingset detection for anon LRU

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Message-ID: <8d12fc23-8731-c5f5-e38c-f40bfecb067f@suse.cz>
Date:   Wed, 1 Jul 2020 23:25:10 +0200
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     js1304@...il.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>, kernel-team@....com,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/6] mm/workingset: extend the workingset detection for
 anon LRU

On 6/17/20 7:26 AM, js1304@...il.com wrote:
> From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>

Hi,

I would adjust the subject, as it sounds like the patch does the whole
workingset detection, not just preparation.
How about:

mm/workingset: prepare the workingset infrastructure for anon LRU

> In the following patch, workingset detection will be applied to
> anonymous LRU. To prepare it, this patch adds some code to
> distinguish/handle the both LRUs.

How about:
To prepare for this, this patch splits workingset event counters for refault,
activate and restore into anon and file variants, as well as the refaults
counter in struct lruvec.

> v6: do not introduce a new nonresident_age for anon LRU since
> we need to use *unified* nonresident_age to implement workingset
> detection for anon LRU.

Again, v6 update info shouldn't go to changelog. In this case I think it doesn't
need mentioning at all, at least not in this patch.

> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>