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Message-ID: <3bd60e1b-a74e-050d-ade4-6e8f54e00b92@linux.alibaba.com>
Date:   Tue, 28 Jul 2020 19:59:33 +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>,
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        Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>,
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        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
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        Rong Chen <rong.a.chen@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v17 03/21] mm/compaction: correct the comments of
 compact_defer_shift


>>   * Compaction is deferred when compaction fails to result in a page
>> - * allocation success. 1 << compact_defer_limit compactions are skipped up
>> + * allocation success. compact_defer_shift++, compactions are skipped up
>>   * to a limit of 1 << COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT
>>   */
>>  void defer_compaction(struct zone *zone, int order)
> 
> So this doesn't read right. I wouldn't keep the "++," in the
> explanation, and if we are going to refer to a limit of "1 <<
> COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT" then maybe this should be left as "1 <<
> compact_defer_shift".
> 

Thanks for comments! So is the changed patch fine?
--

>From 80ffde4c8e13ba2ad1ad5175dbaef245c2fe49bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 09:47:01 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] mm/compaction: correct the comments of compact_defer_shift

There is no compact_defer_limit. It should be compact_defer_shift in
use. and add compact_order_failed explanation.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
---
 include/linux/mmzone.h | 1 +
 mm/compaction.c        | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index f6f884970511..14c668b7e793 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -512,6 +512,7 @@ struct zone {
 	 * On compaction failure, 1<<compact_defer_shift compactions
 	 * are skipped before trying again. The number attempted since
 	 * last failure is tracked with compact_considered.
+	 * compact_order_failed is the minimum compaction failed order.
 	 */
 	unsigned int		compact_considered;
 	unsigned int		compact_defer_shift;
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 86375605faa9..4950240cd455 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ void __ClearPageMovable(struct page *page)
 
 /*
  * Compaction is deferred when compaction fails to result in a page
- * allocation success. 1 << compact_defer_limit compactions are skipped up
+ * allocation success. 1 << compact_defer_shift, compactions are skipped up
  * to a limit of 1 << COMPACT_MAX_DEFER_SHIFT
  */
 void defer_compaction(struct zone *zone, int order)
-- 
1.8.3.1