linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 03/10] mm: don't pass "enum lru

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Date:   Wed, 27 Jan 2021 11:51:33 +0100
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/10] mm: don't pass "enum lru_list" to lru list
 addition functions

On 1/26/21 10:34 PM, Yu Zhao wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 08:13:11PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> On 1/22/21 11:05 PM, Yu Zhao wrote:
>> > The "enum lru_list" parameter to add_page_to_lru_list() and
>> > add_page_to_lru_list_tail() is redundant in the sense that it can
>> > be extracted from the "struct page" parameter by page_lru().
>> 
>> Okay, however, it means repeated extraction of a value that we already knew. The
>> result of compilation is rather sad. This is bloat-o-meter on mm/built-in.a
>> (without CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, btw) between patch 2 and 5:
> 
> Thanks for noticing this, Vlastimil. Should I drop the rest of the
> series except the first patch?

I didn't check how 6-10 look (and if they are still applicable without 3-5),
this was just between 2 and 5.