linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm: Drop locked from isolate_migratepages

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Date:   Thu, 13 Aug 2020 14:56:30 +0800
From:   Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Cc:     yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com, lkp@...el.com, rong.a.chen@...el.com,
        khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru, kirill@...temov.name, hughd@...gle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, shakeelb@...gle.com, willy@...radead.org,
        hannes@...xchg.org, tj@...nel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, richard.weiyang@...il.com,
        mgorman@...hsingularity.net, iamjoonsoo.kim@....com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm: Drop locked from isolate_migratepages_block



在 2020/8/13 下午12:02, Alexander Duyck 写道:
> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> We can drop the need for the locked variable by making use of the
> lruvec_holds_page_lru_lock function. By doing this we can avoid some rcu
> locking ugliness for the case where the lruvec is still holding the LRU
> lock associated with the page. Instead we can just use the lruvec and if it
> is NULL we assume the lock was released.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
>  mm/compaction.c |   45 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

Thanks a lot!
Don't know if community is ok if we keep the patch following whole patchset alone?