linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] mm/page_alloc.c: remove obsolete comment in free_pcppages

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Message-ID: <20210831133830.GE4128@techsingularity.net>
Date:   Tue, 31 Aug 2021 14:38:30 +0100
From:   Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To:     Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, vbabka@...e.cz, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
        peterz@...radead.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] mm/page_alloc.c: remove obsolete comment in
 free_pcppages_bulk()

On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 10:10:48PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> It's also confusing now. Remove it.
> 

Why is the whole comment obsolete?

The second two paragraphs about "all pages pinned" and pages_scanned is
obsolete and can go but the first paragraph is valid.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs