From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752097AbaFPXmk (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:42:40 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:46848 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751850AbaFPXmj (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:42:39 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:42:37 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Chen Yucong Cc: mhocko@suse.cz, hannes@cmpxchg.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmscan.c: avoid recording the original scan targets in shrink_lruvec() Message-Id: <20140616164237.5fcba7baaec83d509c9683e0@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1402923474.3958.34.camel@debian> References: <1402320436-22270-1-git-send-email-slaoub@gmail.com> <1402923474.3958.34.camel@debian> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 20:57:54 +0800 Chen Yucong 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?