Re: [RFC 00/11] make try_to_unmap simple

Anshuman Khandual
2017-03-03T05:42:16Z

On 03/03/2017 07:41 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Hi Anshuman,
>
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 07:52:27PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> On 03/02/2017 12:09 PM, Minchan Kim wrote:
>>> Currently, try_to_unmap returns various return value(SWAP_SUCCESS,
>>> SWAP_FAIL, SWAP_AGAIN, SWAP_DIRTY and SWAP_MLOCK). When I look into
>>> that, it's unncessary complicated so this patch aims for cleaning
>>> it up. Change ttu to boolean function so we can remove SWAP_AGAIN,
>>> SWAP_DIRTY, SWAP_MLOCK.
>>
>> It may be a trivial question but apart from being a cleanup does it
>> help in improving it's callers some way ? Any other benefits ?
>
> If you mean some performace, I don't think so. It just aims for cleanup
> so caller don't need to think much about return value of try_to_unmap.
> What he should consider is just "success/fail". Others will be done in
> isolate/putback friends which makes API simple/easy to use.

Right, got it. Thanks !