From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf0-f199.google.com (mail-pf0-f199.google.com [209.85.192.199]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 908416B0005 for ; Fri, 27 May 2016 12:40:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pf0-f199.google.com with SMTP id g64so140267882pfb.2 for ; Fri, 27 May 2016 09:40:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mga01.intel.com (mga01.intel.com. [192.55.52.88]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id i184si7278358pfc.224.2016.05.27.09.40.28 for ; Fri, 27 May 2016 09:40:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1464367227.22178.147.camel@linux.intel.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: Cleanup - Reorganize the shrink_page_list code into smaller functions From: Tim Chen Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 09:40:27 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1462309280.21143.8.camel@linux.intel.com> References: <1462309280.21143.8.camel@linux.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Michal Hocko Cc: "Kirill A.Shutemov" , Andi Kleen , Aaron Lu , Huang Ying , linux-mm , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Vladimir Davydov , Johannes Weiner , Minchan Kim , Hugh Dickins On Tue, 2016-05-03 at 14:01 -0700, Tim Chen wrote: > This patch prepares the code for being able to batch the anonymous > pages > to be swapped out.A A It reorganizes shrink_page_list function with > 2 new functions: handle_pgout and pg_finish. > > The paging operation in shrink_page_list is consolidated into > handle_pgout function. > > After we have scanned a page shrink_page_list and completed any > paging, > the final disposition and clean up of the page is conslidated into > pg_finish.A A The designated disposition of the page from page scanning > in shrink_page_list is marked with one of the designation in > pg_result. > > This is a clean up patch and there is no change in functionality or > logic of the code. Hi Michal, We've talked about doing the clean up of shrink_page_list code before attempting to do batching on the swap out path as those set of patches I've previously posted are quit intrusive. A Wonder if you have a chance to look at this patch and has any comments? Thanks. Tim -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org