Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: disable LRU pagevec during the migration temporarily

[David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>]

>>> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
>>> ---
>>> * from v1 - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210302210949.2440120-1-minchan@kernel.org/
>>>    * introduce __lru_add_drain_all to minimize changes - mhocko
>>>    * use lru_cache_disable for memory-hotplug
>>>    * schedule for every cpu at force_all_cpus
>>>
>>> * from RFC - http://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210216170348.1513483-1-minchan@kernel.org
>>>    * use atomic and lru_add_drain_all for strict ordering - mhocko
>>>    * lru_cache_disable/enable - mhocko
>>>
>>>   include/linux/migrate.h |  6 ++-
>>>   include/linux/swap.h    |  2 +
>>>   mm/memory_hotplug.c     |  3 +-
>>>   mm/mempolicy.c          |  6 +++
>>>   mm/migrate.c            | 13 ++++---
>>>   mm/page_alloc.c         |  3 ++
>>>   mm/swap.c               | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>>>   7 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>>
>> Sorry for nit picking but I think the additional abstraction for
>> migrate_prep is not really needed and we can remove some more code.
>> Maybe we should even get rid of migrate_prep_local which only has a
>> single caller and open coding lru draining with a comment would be
>> better from code reading POV IMO.
> 
> Thanks for the code. I agree with you.
> However, in this moment, let's go with this one until we conclude.
> The removal of migrate_prep could be easily done after that.
> I am happy to work on it.

Can you prepare + send along these cleanups so we can have a look at the 
end result?

(either cleanups before or after your changes - doing cleanups before 
might be cleaner as we are not dealing with a fix here that we want to 
backport)

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb