Re: [RFC PATCH 01/31] mm: migrate: Add exchange_pages to exchange two lists of pages.

[Zi Yan]

On 21 Feb 2019, at 13:10, Jerome Glisse wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 02:08:26PM -0800, Zi Yan wrote:
>> From: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> In stead of using two migrate_pages(), a single exchange_pages() would
>> be sufficient and without allocating new pages.
>
> So i believe it would be better to arrange the code differently instead
> of having one function that special case combination, define function for
> each one ie:
>     exchange_anon_to_share()
>     exchange_anon_to_anon()
>     exchange_share_to_share()
>
> Then you could define function to test if a page is in correct states:
>     can_exchange_anon_page() // return true if page can be exchange
>     can_exchange_share_page()
>
> In fact both of this function can be factor out as common helpers with the
> existing migrate code within migrate.c This way we would have one place
> only where we need to handle all the special casing, test and exceptions.
>
> Other than that i could not spot anything obviously wrong but i did not
> spent enough time to check everything. Re-architecturing the code like
> i propose above would make this a lot easier to review i believe.
>

Thank you for reviewing the patch. Your suggestions are very helpful.
I will restructure the code to help people review it.


>> +	from_page_count = page_count(from_page);
>> +	from_map_count = page_mapcount(from_page);
>> +	to_page_count = page_count(to_page);
>> +	to_map_count = page_mapcount(to_page);
>> +	from_flags = from_page->flags;
>> +	to_flags = to_page->flags;
>> +	from_mapping = from_page->mapping;
>> +	to_mapping = to_page->mapping;
>> +	from_index = from_page->index;
>> +	to_index = to_page->index;
>
> Those are not use anywhere ...

Will remove them. Thanks.

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Best Regards,
Yan Zi