Re: [PATCH v7 03/15] mm/mglru: relocate the LRU scan batch limit to callers

[Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 02:06:54AM +0800, Kairui Song via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
> 
> Same as active / inactive LRU, MGLRU isolates and scans folios in batches.
> The batch split is done hidden deep in the helper, which makes the code
> harder to follow.  The helper's arguments are also confusing since callers
> usually request more folios than the batch size, so the helper almost
> never processes the full requested amount.
> 
> Move the batch splitting into the top loop to make it cleaner, there
> should be no behavior change.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
> Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huaweicloud.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
> ---
>  mm/vmscan.c | 16 +++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 7f011ff4c478..a011733a6392 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -4695,10 +4695,10 @@ static int scan_folios(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct lruvec *lruvec,
>  	int scanned = 0;
>  	int isolated = 0;
>  	int skipped = 0;
> -	int scan_batch = min(nr_to_scan, MAX_LRU_BATCH);
> -	int remaining = scan_batch;
> +	unsigned long remaining = nr_to_scan;
>  	struct lru_gen_folio *lrugen = &lruvec->lrugen;
>  
> +	VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(nr_to_scan > MAX_LRU_BATCH);

Do we really need a warning here? Also why are we limiting it to MAX_LRU_BATCH?
For memcg/proactive reclaim, we can get larger number. What will break if we
remove this limitation?

Anyways, these questions are orthogonal to the patch, so:

Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>