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From: Kaiyang Zhao <kaiyang2@cs.cmu.edu>
To: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/vmscan: Accumulate nr_demoted for accurate demotion statistics
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:49:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z4EXbSq2Rov78WVF@localhost.localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250110122133.423481-1-lizhijian@fujitsu.com>

On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 08:21:32PM +0800, Li Zhijian wrote:
> In the shrink_folio_list() function, demote_folio_list() can be called
> multiple times, which can lead to inaccurate demotion statistics if the
> number of demoted pages is not accumulated correctly.

It looks like demotion will only be attempted once. On the second pass,
do_demote_pass will be false, demote_folios will be empty and
demote_folio_list() will do nothing. But I guess there is no harm in
making nr_demoted  an accumulation for less confusion in the future...


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-01-10 12:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-10 12:21 [PATCH 1/2] mm/vmscan: Accumulate nr_demoted for accurate demotion statistics Li Zhijian
2025-01-10 12:21 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm/vmscan: Fix pgdemote_* accounting with lru_gen_enabled Li Zhijian
2025-01-15 21:51   ` Yu Zhao
2025-01-10 12:49 ` Kaiyang Zhao [this message]
2025-01-10 14:19   ` [PATCH 1/2] mm/vmscan: Accumulate nr_demoted for accurate demotion statistics Zhijian Li (Fujitsu)
2025-01-10 14:24     ` Zhijian Li (Fujitsu)
2025-01-10 15:24       ` Kaiyang Zhao

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