linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v21 05/19] mm/vmscan: remove unnecessary lruvec adding

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Message-ID: <c07810ed-31b7-7b9b-9638-cfc7574f4a2d@suse.cz>
Date:   Wed, 11 Nov 2020 13:36:43 +0100
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>, 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 v21 05/19] mm/vmscan: remove unnecessary lruvec adding

On 11/5/20 9:55 AM, Alex Shi wrote:
> We don't have to add a freeable page into lru and then remove from it.
> This change saves a couple of actions and makes the moving more clear.
> 
> The SetPageLRU needs to be kept before put_page_testzero for list
> integrity, otherwise:
> 
>    #0 move_pages_to_lru             #1 release_pages
>    if !put_page_testzero
>       			           if (put_page_testzero())
>       			              !PageLRU //skip lru_lock
>       SetPageLRU()
>       list_add(&page->lru,)
>                                           list_add(&page->lru,)
> 
> [akpm@...ux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
> Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
> Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org

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

Nice cleanup!