netdev - Re: [PATCH 01/17] mm: sl[au]b: Add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages

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Message-ID: <20120622093432.GA8271@suse.de>
Date:	Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:34:32 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
To:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Linux-Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Mike Christie <michaelc@...wisc.edu>,
	Eric B Munson <emunson@...bm.net>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@...akpoint.cc>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/17] mm: sl[au]b: Add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve
 pages

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 05:30:56PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 06/20/2012 07:43 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> 
> >+/* Clears ac->pfmemalloc if no slabs have pfmalloc set */
> >+static void check_ac_pfmemalloc(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
> >+						struct array_cache *ac)
> >+{
> 
> >+	pfmemalloc_active = false;
> >+out:
> >+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&l3->list_lock, flags);
> >+}
> 
> The comment and the function do not seem to match.
> 

Well spotted. There used to be ac->pfmemalloc and obviously I failed to
update the comment when it was removed.

> Otherwise, the patch looks reasonable.

Thanks.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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