Re: [PATCH] mm/vmscan.c: avoid recording the original scan targets in shrink_lruvec()

Andrew Morton
2014-06-16T23:42:40Z

On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 20:57:54 +0800 Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 21:27 +0800, Chen Yucong wrote:
> > Via https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/10/334 , we can find that recording the
> > original scan targets introduces extra 40 bytes on the stack. This patch
> > is able to avoid this situation and the call to memcpy(). At the same time,
> > it does not change the relative design idea.
> >
> > ratio = original_nr_file / original_nr_anon;
> >
> > If (nr_file > nr_anon), then ratio = (nr_file - x) / nr_anon.
> > x = nr_file - ratio * nr_anon;
> >
> > if (nr_file <= nr_anon), then ratio = nr_file / (nr_anon - x).
> > x = nr_anon - nr_file / ratio;
> >
> Hi Andrew Morton,
>
> I think the patch
>
> [PATCH]
> mm-vmscanc-avoid-recording-the-original-scan-targets-in-shrink_lruvec-fix.patch
>
> which I committed should be discarded.

OK, thanks.

I assume you're referring to
mm-vmscanc-avoid-recording-the-original-scan-targets-in-shrink_lruvec.patch
- I don't think a -fix.patch existed?