From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Wu Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/16] mm: fold sc.may_writepage and sc.may_swap into sc.flags
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 22:12:44 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4396C3AC.9000802@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051207111117.GA8001@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Wu Fengguang wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:36:23PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>>Wu Fengguang wrote:
>>
>>>Fold bool values into flags to make struct scan_control more compact.
>>>
>>
>>Probably not a bad idea (although you haven't done anything for 64-bit
>>archs, yet)... do we wait until one more flag wants to be added?
>
>
> I did this to hold some more debug flags :)
Yes, but if they make sense for the current kernel too, it reduces
the peripheral noise out of your patchset... which helps everyone :)
> I'll make it a standalone patch, too.
>
Thanks. I don't have strong feelings either way, but I had always
been meaning to do something like this if we picked up another flag.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-07 11:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-07 10:47 [PATCH 00/16] Balancing the scan rate of major caches V3 Wu Fengguang
2005-12-07 10:47 ` [PATCH 01/16] mm: restore sc.nr_to_reclaim Wu Fengguang
2005-12-07 10:47 ` [PATCH 02/16] mm: simplify kswapd reclaim code Wu Fengguang
2005-12-07 10:47 ` [PATCH 03/16] mm: supporting variables and functions for balanced zone aging Wu Fengguang
2005-12-11 22:36 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-12-12 2:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2005-12-07 10:47 ` [PATCH 04/16] mm: balance zone aging in direct reclaim path Wu Fengguang
2005-12-07 10:48 ` [PATCH 05/16] mm: balance zone aging in kswapd " Wu Fengguang
2005-12-07 10:58 ` Wu Fengguang
2005-12-07 13:32 ` Wu Fengguang
2005-12-07 10:48 ` [PATCH 06/16] mm: balance slab aging Wu Fengguang
2005-12-07 11:08 ` Wu Fengguang
2005-12-07 11:34 ` Nick Piggin
2005-12-07 12:59 ` Wu Fengguang
2005-12-07 10:48 ` [PATCH 07/16] mm: balance active/inactive list scan rates Wu Fengguang
2005-12-07 10:48 ` [PATCH 08/16] mm: fine grained scan priority Wu Fengguang
2005-12-07 10:48 ` [PATCH 09/16] mm: remove unnecessary variable and loop Wu Fengguang
2006-01-05 19:21 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2006-01-06 8:58 ` Wu Fengguang
2005-12-07 10:48 ` [PATCH 10/16] mm: remove swap_cluster_max from scan_control Wu Fengguang
2005-12-07 10:48 ` [PATCH 11/16] mm: let sc.nr_scanned/sc.nr_reclaimed accumulate Wu Fengguang
2005-12-07 10:48 ` [PATCH 12/16] mm: fold sc.may_writepage and sc.may_swap into sc.flags Wu Fengguang
2005-12-07 10:36 ` Nick Piggin
2005-12-07 11:11 ` Wu Fengguang
2005-12-07 11:12 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2005-12-07 13:01 ` Wu Fengguang
2005-12-07 11:15 ` Wu Fengguang
2005-12-07 17:02 ` Martin Hicks
2005-12-07 23:15 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-07 10:48 ` [PATCH 13/16] mm: fix minor scan count bugs Wu Fengguang
2005-12-07 10:32 ` Nick Piggin
2005-12-07 11:02 ` Wu Fengguang
2005-12-07 10:48 ` [PATCH 14/16] mm: zone aging rounds accounting Wu Fengguang
2005-12-07 10:48 ` [PATCH 15/16] mm: add page reclaim debug traces Wu Fengguang
2005-12-07 10:48 ` [PATCH 16/16] mm: kswapd reclaim debug trace Wu Fengguang
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