linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: disable LRU pagevec during the migration temporarily

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Date:   Tue, 9 Mar 2021 18:54:52 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
To:     Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, joaodias@...gle.com,
        surenb@...gle.com, cgoldswo@...eaurora.org, willy@...radead.org,
        david@...hat.com, vbabka@...e.cz, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: disable LRU pagevec during the migration
 temporarily

On Tue 09-03-21 08:29:21, Minchan Kim wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 12:03:08PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> > Sorry for nit picking but I think the additional abstraction for
> > migrate_prep is not really needed and we can remove some more code.
> > Maybe we should even get rid of migrate_prep_local which only has a
> > single caller and open coding lru draining with a comment would be
> > better from code reading POV IMO.
> 
> Thanks for the code. I agree with you.
> However, in this moment, let's go with this one until we conclude.
> The removal of migrate_prep could be easily done after that.
> I am happy to work on it.

I will leave that up to you but I find it a bit pointless to add
migrate_finish just to remove it in the next patch.

Btw. you should also move lru_cache_disabled up in swap.c to fix up
compilation issues by 0 day bot. I didn't do that in my version.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs