From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757660AbZEQBYX (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 May 2009 21:24:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753673AbZEQBYO (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 May 2009 21:24:14 -0400 Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.44.28]:20430 "EHLO yx-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756290AbZEQBYN (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 May 2009 21:24:13 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Awo8ZVPuUTX4xkAUG3R99ArkioxWTKVAUjNalRnHSBNU/97wEqVNC7HCceKGwO9Xum OlDBmfrFYjGzeIzj4blX+GUIFQG2751jqPABjxBdairHRMSx68uRWSQywdB5cZwOUOdE zFvLy9ILxQkNfXCDy7bowdwlZzBQXAdGbiySA= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090516090448.535217680@intel.com> References: <20090516090005.916779788@intel.com> <20090516090448.535217680@intel.com> Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 10:24:13 +0900 Message-ID: <28c262360905161824p7022748esb0f8600a8317eab9@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] vmscan: merge duplicate code in shrink_active_list() From: Minchan Kim To: Wu Fengguang Cc: Andrew Morton , LKML , Rik van Riel , Christoph Lameter , KOSAKI Motohiro , "hannes@cmpxchg.org" , "peterz@infradead.org" , "tytso@mit.edu" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "elladan@eskimo.com" , "npiggin@suse.de" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Wu Fengguang wrote: > The "move pages to active list" and "move pages to inactive list" > code blocks are mostly identical and can be served by a function. > > Thanks to Andrew Morton for pointing this out. > > Note that buffer_heads_over_limit check will also be carried out > for re-activated pages, which is slightly different from pre-2.6.28 > kernels. Also, Rik's "vmscan: evict use-once pages first" patch > could totally stop scans of active list when memory pressure is low. To clarify, active file list. otherwise is good to me. Thanks for your great effort to enhance VM. :) > CC: Rik van Riel > Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim -- Kinds regards, Minchan Kim