Re: [RFC 5/8] compaction: remove active list counting

[Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 08:42:28AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:15 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
> <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:25:22 +0900
> > Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> acct_isolated of compaction uses page_lru_base_type which returns only
> >> base type of LRU list so it never returns LRU_ACTIVE_ANON or LRU_ACTIVE_FILE.
> >> So it's pointless to add lru[LRU_ACTIVE_[ANON|FILE]] to get sum.
> >>
> >> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
> >> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
> >> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> >> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
> >
> > I think some comments are necessary to explain why INACTIVE only.
> 
> As alternative, I can change page_lru_base_type with page_lru.
> It's not hot path so I will do.

We immediately use those numbers to account
NR_ISOLATED_ANON/NR_ISOLATED_FILE - i.e. 'lru base types', so I think
using page_lru_base_type() makes perfect sense.