Re: [PATCH 1/7] hugetlb, rmap: add reverse mapping for hugepage

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Wed May 26 2010 - 05:45:10 EST


On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:19:58AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> Mel, other than this nit are you happy with these changes now?
>

Pretty much but I also want to test the series myself to be sure I haven't
missed something in review.

> > > It adds another header dependency which is bad but moving hugetlb stuff
> > > into mm.h seems bad too.
> >
> > I have another choice to move the definition of is_vm_hugetlb_page() into
> > mm/hugetlb.c and introduce declaration of this function to pagemap.h,
> > but this needed a bit ugly #ifdefs and I didn't like it.
> > If putting hugetlb code in mm.h is worse, I'll take the second choice
> > in the next post.
>
> You could always create a new include file hugetlb-inlines.h
>

That would be another option. It'd need to be figured out what should
move from hugetlb.h to hugetlb-inlines.h in the future but ultimately it
would still be tidier than moving hugetlb stuff to mm.h (at least to
me).

--
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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