linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v18 24/32] mm/pgdat: remove pgdat lru

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Date:   Mon, 21 Sep 2020 22:53:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:     Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mgorman@...hsingularity.net,
        tj@...nel.org, hughd@...gle.com, khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru,
        daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com, willy@...radead.org,
        hannes@...xchg.org, lkp@...el.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        shakeelb@...gle.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@....com,
        richard.weiyang@...il.com, kirill@...temov.name,
        alexander.duyck@...il.com, rong.a.chen@...el.com, mhocko@...e.com,
        vdavydov.dev@...il.com, shy828301@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v18 24/32] mm/pgdat: remove pgdat lru_lock

On Mon, 24 Aug 2020, Alex Shi wrote:

> Now pgdat.lru_lock was replaced by lruvec lock. It's not used anymore.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
> Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com>

I don't take pleasure in spoiling your celebrations and ceremonies,
but I strongly agree with AlexD that this should simply be merged
into the big one, 20/32.  That can be ceremony enough.

> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: cgroups@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>  include/linux/mmzone.h | 1 -
>  mm/page_alloc.c        | 1 -
>  2 files changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> index f0596e634863..0ed520954843 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> @@ -758,7 +758,6 @@ struct deferred_split {
>  
>  	/* Write-intensive fields used by page reclaim */
>  	ZONE_PADDING(_pad1_)
> -	spinlock_t		lru_lock;
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
>  	/*
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index fab5e97dc9ca..775120fcc869 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -6733,7 +6733,6 @@ static void __meminit pgdat_init_internals(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
>  	init_waitqueue_head(&pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait);
>  
>  	pgdat_page_ext_init(pgdat);
> -	spin_lock_init(&pgdat->lru_lock);
>  	lruvec_init(&pgdat->__lruvec);
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1