linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/vmscan: reclaim only affects managed

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Message-ID: <YkFuUsWe2LAuQa3n@localhost.localdomain>
Date:   Mon, 28 Mar 2022 10:14:10 +0200
From:   Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
To:     Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ying.huang@...el.com,
        mgorman@...hsingularity.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/vmscan: reclaim only affects managed_zones

On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 02:41:00AM +0000, Wei Yang wrote:
> As mentioned in commit 6aa303defb74 ("mm, vmscan: only allocate and
> reclaim from zones with pages managed by the buddy allocator") , reclaim
> only affects managed_zones.
> 
> Let's adjust the code and comment accordingly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>

LGTM,

Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>

We still have some other places scattered all over where we use
populated_zone().
I think it should be great to check whether all those usages are
right.


-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE Labs