Re: [PATCH] mm: vmscan: correct nr_reclaimed for THP

From: William Kucharski
Date: Fri May 10 2019 - 00:35:34 EST




> On May 9, 2019, at 9:03 PM, Huang, Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On 5/9/19 7:12 PM, Huang, Ying wrote:
>>>
>>> How about to change this to
>>>
>>>
>>> nr_reclaimed += hpage_nr_pages(page);
>>
>> Either is fine to me. Is this faster than "1 << compound_order(page)"?
>
> I think the readability is a little better. And this will become
>
> nr_reclaimed += 1
>
> if CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUAGEPAGE is disabled.

I find this more legible and self documenting, and it avoids the bit shift
operation completely on the majority of systems where THP is not configured.