linux-kernel - Re: [v3 PATCH 02/11] mm: vmscan: consolidate shrinker

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Message-ID: <CAHbLzkqnLKh7L5BWdSsoX5t-DjpOwYREwY5yBXgRUqAuubueQw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:00:17 -0800
From:   Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Cc:     Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Linux FS-devel Mailing List <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [v3 PATCH 02/11] mm: vmscan: consolidate shrinker_maps handling code

On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 4:14 PM Roman Gushchin <guro@...com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 02:58:08PM -0800, Yang Shi wrote:
> > The shrinker map management is not really memcg specific, it's just allocation
>
> In the current form it doesn't look so, especially because each name
> has a memcg_ prefix and each function takes a memcg argument.
>
> It begs for some refactorings (Kirill suggested some) and renamings.

BTW, do you mean the suggestion about renaming memcg_shrinker_maps to
shrinker_maps? I just saw his email today since gmail filtered his
emails to SPAM :-(

>
> Thanks!