Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: disable LRU pagevec during the migration temporarily

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Tue Mar 09 2021 - 12:55:54 EST


On Tue 09-03-21 08:29:21, Minchan Kim wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 12:03:08PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> > Sorry for nit picking but I think the additional abstraction for
> > migrate_prep is not really needed and we can remove some more code.
> > Maybe we should even get rid of migrate_prep_local which only has a
> > single caller and open coding lru draining with a comment would be
> > better from code reading POV IMO.
>
> Thanks for the code. I agree with you.
> However, in this moment, let's go with this one until we conclude.
> The removal of migrate_prep could be easily done after that.
> I am happy to work on it.

I will leave that up to you but I find it a bit pointless to add
migrate_finish just to remove it in the next patch.

Btw. you should also move lru_cache_disabled up in swap.c to fix up
compilation issues by 0 day bot. I didn't do that in my version.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs