linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v16 20/22] mm/vmscan: use relock for move_pages_to

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Date:   Sat, 18 Jul 2020 22:15:25 +0800
From:   Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>,
        Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>,
        Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        kbuild test robot <lkp@...el.com>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v16 20/22] mm/vmscan: use relock for move_pages_to_lru



在 2020/7/18 上午5:44, Alexander Duyck 写道:
>>                         if (unlikely(PageCompound(page))) {
>>                                 spin_unlock_irq(&lruvec->lru_lock);
>> +                               lruvec = NULL;
>>                                 destroy_compound_page(page);
>> -                               spin_lock_irq(&lruvec->lru_lock);
>>                         } else
>>                                 list_add(&page->lru, &pages_to_free);
>>
> It seems like this should just be rolled into patch 19. Otherwise if
> you are wanting to consider it as a "further optimization" type patch
> you might pull some of the optimizations you were pushing in patch 18
> into this patch as well and just call it out as adding relocks where
> there previously were none.

This patch is picked from Hugh Dickin's version in my review. It could be
fine to have a extra patch which no harm for anyone. :)

Thanks
Alex