Re: [PATCH v14 15/20] mm/swap: serialize memcg changes during pagevec_lru_move_fn

From: Alex Shi
Date: Sat Jul 04 2020 - 09:14:07 EST




在 2020/7/4 下午7:39, Matthew Wilcox 写道:
> On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 07:34:59PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
>> That's a great idea! Guess what the new struct we need would be like this?
>> I like to try this. :)
>>
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/pagevec.h b/include/linux/pagevec.h
>> index 081d934eda64..d62778c8c184 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/pagevec.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/pagevec.h
>> @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
>> struct pagevec {
>> unsigned char nr;
>> bool percpu_pvec_drained;
>> - struct page *pages[PAGEVEC_SIZE];
>> + struct list_head veclist;
>> };
>
> pagevecs are used not just for LRU. If you want to use a list_head for
> LRU then define a new structure.
>

yes, there are much page don't use page->lru, like slab etc. we need a new struct.

Thanks!
Alex